** Francis Kynaston, English courtier and poet ( d. 1642 )

** Sir Francis Kynaston, poet ( born 1587 )

** Francis Kynaston, English poet ( died 1642 )

An apocryphal story by the English poet Francis Kynaston in the early 17th century refers to the flux as the cause of death, but this has not been established.

* Sir Francis Kynaston the poet-was born in the town in 1587.

Lady Corbet ( one of the recipients of the estate after Ann Bold's death ) settled her fourth part of Shelvock estate on her grandson Corbet Kynaston and in 1702 her sisters Beatrice Thornes and Francis Ironsides transferred their shares ( subject to their life interests ) to her.

Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston ( 1587 – 1642 ) was an English lawyer, courtier, poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.

* Cesare Cuttica, Sir Francis Kynaston: The importance of the ‘ Nation ’ for a 17th-century English royalist, History of European Ideas, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 139-161.

* Francis Kynaston ( died 1590 ), MP

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer

As these elite French cavalry attacked, they were faced by five English squadrons under Colonel Francis Palmes.

In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.

The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.

Havana was furnished with the fortress of Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro to deter potential invaders, which included the English privateer Francis Drake, who sailed within sight of Havana harbour but did not disembark on the island.

* 1951 – Gerry Francis, English football player and manager

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

One prominent such effort was the collection by Francis James Child in the late 19th century of the texts of over three hundred ballads in the English and Scots traditions ( called the Child Ballads ) most of which predated the sixteenth century.

In English speaking countries, " Xavier " is one of the few names starting with X, and until recently was likely to follow " Francis "; in the last decade, however, " Xavier " by itself has become more popular than " Francis ", and is now one of the hundred most common male baby names in the US.

In the year 2009, the was Sam Fransikachea Visvaxiponnachea Dekhin, Jezu-Noketra Bhaxen Porzollum-ia, which translates from Konkani into English as ' Inspired by the faithfulness of Saint Francis, let us shine like Jesus, the Star ', probably based on the year's pastoral theme of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão Noketram Bhaxen, Sonvsarant Porzollum-ia which translates into English as ' Shine like Stars, in the World '.

This year masses are being held mainly in Konkanni, besides English, Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Portuguese and Spanish languages, but most, if not all the Masses, conclude with the recessional hymn Sam Fransisku Xaviera, Vhodda Kunvra ( In English it roughly translates Our Saint Francis Xavier, Great Prince ).

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

A few months later, Francis went abroad with Sir Amias Paulet, the English ambassador at Paris, while Anthony continued his studies at home.

The scholar Harvey Wheeler attributed to Bacon, in his work " Francis Bacon's Verulamium-the Common Law Template of The Modern in English Science and Culture ", the creation of these distinguishing features of the modern common law system:

* 1822 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician ( d. 1911 )

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral ( 1540 – 27 January 1596 ) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era.

It was only in the 19th century, with the increasing interest in occultism amongst the British following the publication of Francis Barrett's The Magus ( 1801 ), that the term entered the English language in reference to books of magic.

In 1598, Francis Meres published his Palladis Tamia, a survey of English literature from Chaucer to its present day, within which twelve of Shakespeare's plays are named.

Diane de Poitiers ( 3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566 ) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of kings Francis I and his son, Henry II of France.

He was a grandson of King Charles VII who served as a courtier of King Francis I.

* Francis L. Sullivan-Pothinus, Egyptian courtier, tutor and guardian of Cleopatra's brother Ptolemy XIII.

* Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford ( died 1704 ), Irish-born courtier and soldier in Lorraine

Francis George Hugh Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford GCB PC ( 11 February 1812 – 25 January 1884 ), known as Francis Seymour until 1870, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.

General Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham KP, GCH, PC ( 11 June 1797 – 17 July 1876 ), styled Lord Francis Conyngham between 1816 and 1824 and Earl of Mount Charles between 1824 and 1832, was a British soldier, courtier and politician.

Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys GCB, GCVO, KCMG, PC, ISO ( 16 July 1837 – 15 August 1924 ), was a British courtier.

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

The " Hound of Heaven " is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson ( 1859-1907 ).

* 1879 – Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet ( d. 1953 )

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

** Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet ( b. 1887 )

** Francis Quarles, English poet ( b. 1592 )

* January 28 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet ( d. 1953 )

* May – Francis Quarles, English poet ( died 1644 )

Two poets, Irishman Francis Ledwidge, 25, of 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in 29th Division, and Hedd Wyn, a Welsh-language poet serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Pilckem Ridge, were both killed in action on 31 July.

Not only did Francis support a number of major writers of the period, he was a poet himself, if not one of particular quality.

* Francis Saltus Saltus ( 1849 – 1889 ), American decadent poet & bohemian

Francis Bret Harte ( August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902 ) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

* Francis Ledwidge ( 1887 – 1917 ), poet killed in action during World War I.

East Twickenham sits largely on the former Twickenham Park ( estate of Sir Francis Bacon, the 16th century philosopher and Lord Chancellor ) together with the former Cambridge Park, home of Richard Owen Cambridge, the 18th century satirical poet.

Francis Picabia (; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953 ) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.

The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO ( 30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915 ), was a British soldier and poet of World War I.

Notable residents included poet and women's-rights activist Sarah Tittle ( Barrett ) Bolton ( 1814 – 1893 ), and Indianapolis financier Francis McClintock Churchman ( 1833 – 1891 ).

A poet, Francis Miles Finch, happened to be in town that day and commemorated the occasion with the poem " The Blue and the Grey ".

* Francis Turner Palgrave ( 1824 – 1897 ), British critic and poet

Philip Francis Berrigan was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, a Midwestern working class town, the younger brother of the Jesuit fellow-activist and poet, Daniel Berrigan.

Francis Thompson ( 16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907 ) was an English poet and ascetic.

A long and eloquent Discours au roi ( detailing the duties of a prince, and translated from a Latin original written by Michel de l ' Hôpital, now lost ) was dedicated to Francis II in 1559, and is said to have secured for the poet a tardy pension.

As early as 1514, before the accession of King Francis I, Clément presented to him his Judgment of Minos, and shortly afterward he was either styled or styled himself facteur ( poet ) de la reine to Queen Claude.

Mellin de Saint-Gelais ( or Melin de Saint-Gelays or Sainct-Gelais ; c. 1491 – October, 1558 ) was a French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France.