Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was age 17.

The first son was reportedly named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.

** Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford ( d. 1641 )

* July 28 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford ( b. 1527 )

Mary I died in 1558, and she was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth I. Walsingham returned to England, and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1559

* Francis Bedford ( 1816 – 1894 ), an English photographer

* Francis Octavius Bedford ( 1784 – 1858 ), an English architect

The major development of the squares that we see today started in about 1800 when Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford removed Bedford House and developed the land to the north with Russell Square as its centrepiece.

The Trinity House Estate, laid out around a 1820s classical church by Francis Octavius Bedford, is still largely in existence.

* Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford

It is also known as the Bedford Level, after Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, who headed the so-called adventurers ( investors ) in the seventeenth century drainage in this area ; his son became the first governor of the Bedford Level Corporation.

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, who owned large tracts of land in the vicinity, agreed to carry out drainage works in 1630, in return for of the land which would be reclaimed.

Apart from this, and allowing several poor-quality tenements to be erected, the Russells did little with the land until the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, an active and ambitious businessman, commissioned Inigo Jones in 1630 to design and build a church and three terraces of fine houses around a large square or piazza.

The square was originally laid out in 1630 when the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, commissioned Inigo Jones to design and build a church and three terraces of fine houses around the site of a former walled garden belonging to Westminster Abbey.

In January 1561 he was appointed to attend on Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, during his embassy to the French court.

Architect Francis Octavius Bedford designed this church and St John's in a similar neoclassical style.

In an effort to create an amicable atmosphere for the coming Parliamentary session, several leading aristocratic members of the Parliamentary party were cast in the masque, including Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, and Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke.

Classically inspired male hair styles included the Bedford Crop, arguably the precursor of most plain modern male styles, which was invented by the radical politician Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford as a protest against a tax on hair powder ; he encouraged his frends to adopt it by betting them they would not.

File: 5th Duke of Bedford. png | Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford in a Bedford Crop

* 1864 – John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1920 )

* January 14 – John Francis Dodge, American automobile manufacturer ( b. 1864 )

He and his first wife had two children: Thomas Sheridan, who married Caroline Henrietta Callander, daughter of Col. Sir James Campbell Callander, of Craigforth, Stirling, and Ardkinglas, and was the father of the 4th Baroness of Dufferin and Claneboye, Caroline Sheridan and the 12th Duchess of Somerset ; and Edith Marcia Caroline Sheridan ( d. 9 April 1876 ), m. 30 June 1864 to John Francis Thynne, of Haynes Park ( 17 June 1830 – 30 January 1910, Justice of Peace, of the Marquesses of Bath, and had issue.

In the 1860s, American explorer Charles Francis Hall's in a two-masted ship, Monticello, while searching for John Franklin's lost Northwest Passage expedition of 1845, reached Roes Welcome Sound in 1864 and had to overwinter at the mouth of Wager Bay.

The Fairlie was invented and patented by the Scottish engineer Robert Francis Fairlie in 1864.

Laurence George Frank Gordon ( 1864 – 1943 ), grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Francis Arthur Gordon ( 1808 – 1857 ), sixth son of the ninth Marquess, was a Brigadier-General in the Army.

George Francis Train and Thomas C. Durant, a vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad, formed the Crédit Mobilier in 1864.

* Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill ( 1864 – 1934 ) ( created Viscount Churchill in 1902 )

* Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill ( 1864 – 1934 )

* Thomas Francis Marshall ( 1801 – 1864 ), U. S. Representative from Kentucky, 1841 – 1843

* William Francis Henry Denison, 2nd Earl of Londesborough ( 1864 – 1917 )

# 1864, Nectarinidae, or Sun-Birds, by William Jardine, with a Portrait and Memoir of Francis Willughby.

* 1861-December 1864 Richard Francis Burton

For a time in 1864, Herold was employed in Brooklyn, New York, by Francis Tumblety, a quack " Indian Herb " doctor who would be arrested in St. Louis, Missouri in the manhunt following the Lincoln assassination and released for lack of evidence.

Francis stayed active on all levels of involvement in the city of Lowell, and even served as an Alderman from 1862 to 1864.

Francis Vielé-Griffin ( May 26, 1864 – November 12, 1937 ), was a French symbolist poet.

* Francis Joseph I 1848 – 1916 Brother of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico ( ruled 1864 – 1867 )

Francis W. Moore, Jr. ( 1808 – 1864 ) became the second mayor of Houston, Texas in 1838.

They include Ellen Middleton ( 1844 ), Grantley Manor ( 1847 ), Lady Bird ( 1852 ), Life of St. Francis of Rome ( 1855 ), The countess of Bonneval ( 1858 ) Rose Leblanc ( 1861 ), Laurentia, a tale of Japan ( 1861 ), Too Strange not to be True ( 1864 ), Constance Sherwood ( 1865 ), A stormy life ( 1867 ), Helpers of the holy soul ( 1868 ), Mrs. Geralds niece ( 1869 ), Life of Louisa de Carvajal ( 1873 ), A will and a way ( 1881 ) and Life of Elizabeth Lady Falkland ( 1883 ).

The churches at Swannington, Coalville and Thringstone all owe their existence to the zealous missionary drive of the Reverend Francis Merewether MA ( 1784 – 1864 ), Vicar of Whitwick for more than fifty years, and also Rector of Coleorton.

* Francis Wall Oliver ( 1864 – 1951 ), British botanist

Bythesea was invalided out, and replaced by Captain Francis Marten on 12 April 1864.

Leonard Horner ( 17 January 1785 – 5 March 1864 ), Scottish geologist, brother of Francis Horner, was born in Edinburgh.

The building itself was designed by Francis Fowke, based on early plans by Charles Lanyon and was completed in 1864.