Francis Everton

> Francis Everton was a pseudonym for **Francis William Stokes** (1883-1956), an engineer and the managing director (later chairman) of Stokes Castings, Ltd., a family firm located in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Apparently the "Everton" in Francis Everton came from his mother, Harriet Everton. Stokes' father, William Edward Stokes, started an iron foundry, the basis of the family fortune (and the setting of Stokes' detective novel *The Hammer of Doom*); before that the Stokes family line was headed by three generations of …