His manuscripts and other papers are deposited in the Natural History Museum in London and at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Hemming was educated at Rugby School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
During World War I he was severely wounded in 1916, and in 1918 he joined the British Civil Service.
[1] First married to Vera Montague Murray in 1924 (marriage dissolved in 1932) with whom he had one son, Christopher Francis Hemming.
Hemming won international recognition for his decades of dedicated service to zoological nomenclature and to entomology.