Clifford James Hemming (9 September 1909 – 25 December 2007) was a British child psychologist, educationalist and humanist.
Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, James Hemming's childhood education was patchy, and he later obtained his BA via a correspondence course run by Birkbeck College, London.
Beneficiaries from his will included Oxfam, National Children's Bureau, Amnesty International UK, Friends of the Earth, World Wide Fund for Nature, Greenpeace, Cancer Research Campaign, British Humanist Association, Arthritis and Rheumatism Council, Unicef, and the Adlerian Society for Individual Psychology.
[1][2] James appeared as a defence witness in the Penguin Books obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960.
He was a member of the Television Research Committee, set up to investigate the impact of mass media on the moral development of young people.
[5] Hemming wrote, I came in on Eagle originally because Johnny Metcalfe of Colman, Prentis & Varley rang me up to know if I was interested in the project.
As for those early days, there was the sheer miracle of Eagle appearing regularly as, for months, perforce, we had no time in hand.