Birth: 28 May 1903 Catford, Lewisham, London, UK
Father: Herbert Cleverdon Honey 1865-1943
Mother: Annie Eliza Bourne 1863-1957
Marriage: January-March 1937 Hammersmith, London, UK
Wife: Freda Braybooks Murphy 1909-2007
Death: 21 November 1963 Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Stepney, London, E1 1BB, UK
Hilary J Honey [James] 1938-a1967
John F Honey 1949-a1983
Birth of Frederick John C Honey in FreeBMD in July-September 1903 in Lewisham (1d 1251).
His sister was born in Brentford in 1910.
In the 1911 census as Frederick John Clevendon Honey aged 7, born in Catford, Lewisham, London, and living with his parents (Herbert Cleverdon and Annie Eliza), sister (Margaret Annie) and a servant (Susan Johnston aged 37, born in Drunkeerin, Fermanagh, Ireland and single) at 25 Western Gardens, Ealing Common, W, Middlesex.
Five entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Frederick John Clevedon Honey addresses 20 Linkenholt Mansions, Beford Park, Chiswick, Hounslow from 1931 to 1933 plus another family, 168 Gunnersbury Avenue, Old Brentford, Chiswick, Hounslow in 1934 plus another family, and 20 Talgarth Mansions, Barons Court, Fulham in 1936 plus another family.
Marriage of Frederick J C Honey and Freda B Murphy in FreeBMD in January-March 1937 in Hammersmith (1a 576).
His daughter was born in Marylebone in 1938 and son in Ealing in 1949.
Two entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Frederick John Clevedon Honey address 9 St Albans Avenue, Chiswick, Acton in 1937 and 1938, other occupant Freda Braybrooks Honey (wife?). seventeen entries for Frederick J C Honey addresses 3 Birch Grove, Acton from 1945 to 1948, other occupants Freda B Honey (wife?) and Annie E Honey (mother?), 28 Carbery Avenue W3, Grange, Ealing from 1949 to 1960, other occupants Freda B Honey (wife?), Annie E Honey (mother?) in 1956, and Hilary J Honey (daughter?) in 1959 and 1960, and 2 The Ridgeway, Acton W3, Brentford from 1961 to 1963, other occupants Freda B Honey (wife?) and Hilary J Honey (daughter?) in 1961.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Frederick J C Honey born 28 May 1903, married, an assistant secretary and ARP, and living with one other at 9 St Albans Avenue, Acton, Middlesex. His wife was living with his parents at 83 Abbotsham Road, Bideford, Devon.
Seventeen entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Frederick J C Honey addresses 3 Birch Grove, Acton from 1945 to 1948, other occupants Freda B Honey (wife?) and Annie E Honey (mother?), 28 Carbery Avenue W3, Grange, Ealing from 1949 to 1960, other occupants Freda B Honey (wife?), Annie E Honey (mother?) in 1956, and Hilary J Honey (daughter?) in 1959 and 1960, and 2 The Ridgeway, Acton W3, Brentford from 1961 to 1963, other occupants Freda B Honey (wife?) and Hilary J Honey (daughter?) in 1961.
Entry in 1955 New Year Honours "Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)[ [...] Civil Division [...] Frederick John Cleverdon Honey, Secretary, British Employers' Confederation".
There are 13 entries in Ancestry All British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for F J C Honey at 9 St Albans Avenue W4 CHIswick 5460 between 1938 and 1941, 3 Birch Grove W3 ACOrn 3960 between 1946 and 1948, 28 Carbery Avenue W3 ACOrn 3357 between1950 and 1959, 2 Ridgeway W3 ACOrn 3357 between 1961 and 1962, 20 Shire Lane Chorleywood 2516 in 1963.
Death of Frederick J C Honey in FreeBMD in October-December 1963 aged 60 in Stepney (5d 571).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Frederick John Cleverdon Honey died 21 November 1963 in Hertfordshire, Hertford, probate 3 March 1964 in London. "Honey Frederick John Cleverdon of 20 Shire Lane Chorley Wood Hertfordshire died 21 November 1963 at London Hospital Stepney London Probate London 3 March to Freda Braybrooks Honey widow. £19577".
Entry in Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1964) 90: pp164-165 Published 31 December 1964:
He was born on 28 May 1903, son of the late Herbert C. Honey who was a Principal in the Board of Trade. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School from 1914 to 1920, on leaving which he entered the service of the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association. He remained there until 1928 when he was appointed to a post with the National Confederation of Employers’ Organisations (now the British Employers’ Confederation) where he was originally concerned with the interpretation of official statistics as these related to industrial relations and allied matters. He was appointed an Assistant Secretary of the Confederation in 1939, Secretary in 1949, and General Secretary in 1962.
He qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1935 and served as an Examiner from 1945 to 1949. He became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1934. He was a member of the Fellowship Club from 1948 until his death.
Honey was the author of a paper on The Estimated Population of Great Britain 1941– 1971, read to the Institute in 1937 and published in volume 68 of the Journal. This paper was one of a number written on population trends about this time reflecting the anxiety felt in several of the older European countries as to the long-run effect of the concurrence of a falling birth-rate and a falling death-rate at higher ages. While the forecasts contained in these papers have not been realized in the event, the discussion which they stimulated not only laid the foundations for much of the subsequent work undertaken through the Royal Commission of Population just after the war, but, by directing public attention to the social problems involved, contributed towards their solution.
A great part of his working life was spent in fields remote from those in which actuaries are normally engaged. Nevertheless he was brought closely in touch with one matter which has been exercising the minds of actuaries very much in recent years, through his membership, along with two other members of the Institute, of the Committee on the Economic and Financial Problems of the Provision for Old Age under the chairmanship of Sir Thomas Phillips. He also served on the President of the Board of Trade’s Advisory Committee on the Production Campaign appointed in 1946; the Minister of Labour’s Standing Committee on the Staggering of Holidays, from 1946 to 1949; the Industrial Panel of the Civil Defence Joint Planning Staff from 1947; and the Minister of Labour’s Cost of Living Advisory Committee from 1961 until his death. Apart, from these formal appointments he was associated with the work of many other Government committees and of bodies with which the Confederation had links.
He was a member of the British delegation to the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 1959 and had served since 1957 as a member of the Committee of Social Security Experts of the International Labour Office.
He acquired an extensive knowledge of the working of the agencies, both voluntary and statutory, through which wages and working conditions are settled in British industry and his advice was widely sought not merely on questions regarding the machinery of such settlement but also on substantive issues arising out of the negotiations in individual industries. He was also frequently consulted about the measures taken to promote safety and health in industry, another field in which few people in the country can have been better informed.
His manifold public services were recognized by the conferment of the honour of C.B.E. in the 1955 New Year Honours.
In his younger days he had played rugby football for the Old Merchant Taylors, and
he maintained a close interest in the Old Merchant Taylors’ Society, accompanying the
cricket team on its annual tour on several occasions long after his playing days were over.
He was for some years treasurer of St Martin’s Church, West Acton.
In manner modest and in disposition equable, he won, by his qualities of character as
much as by his knowledge and judgment, the respect and confidence not only of those
who like himself were concerned with representing the interests of employers but also of
the senior officials of the many Government departments and trade unions with which he
came into contact. His unvarying kindliness gained for him a wide circle of friends
throughout industry and in the public service who will remember him with affection.
Kenneth J Burton
Cleverdon was from his great grandmother Elizabeth Cleverdon.
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frederick John Cleverdon Honey, parents Herbert Cleverdon Honey and Annie Eliza Bourne, born in Lewisham, Latford, London in 1904 in one, and on 28 May 1903 in Catford, Kent and death on 21 November 1963 at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London in the other two which add his marriage to Freda Braybrooks Murphy in Hammersmith in May 1937, a son John F and a daughter.
Frederick John Cleverdon Honey was the grandson of Frederick William Bourne, husband of Adelaide Chalcraft, my fifth cousin three times removed.
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