Francis Tomkinson


Francis Martin Tomkinson was an English cricketer who played one first-class cricket match, for Worcestershire against Hampshire in 1902. He made a duck in his only innings, but did take one catch, to dismiss Arthur Webb off the bowling of George Alfred Wilson.
He served with the Worcestershire Regiment in World War I and was awarded a DSO and Bar in 1917.
He was a member of the well-known Kidderminster carpet-making family.
Tomkinson was born at Franche Hall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire; he died at Chilton, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire at the age of 80.
His brother Geoffrey played twice for Worcestershire.