Born on 19 August 1821, he was the second son of Henry Keene Hemming of Grays, Essex, by his wife Sophia, daughter of Gabriel Wirgman of London.
Educated at Clapham grammar school, he went to St John's College, Cambridge, where in 1844, he was senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman and was elected to a fellowship.
[1] Hemming died at 2 Earl's Court Square, South Kensington, on 6 January 1905 and was buried in old Hampstead church.
He published Reports of Cases adjudged in the High Court of Chancery before Sir William Page Wood for 1859–62 (2 vols.
1856), was law reporter to the House of Lords; a daughter, Fanny Henrietta (1863–1886), exhibited at the Royal Academy.