** Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury ( d. 1667 )

* March 16 – Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury ( b. 1623 )

While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).

Nigel Lambert played Henry, Barbara Jefford played Margaret, Francis de Wolff played Talbot and Elizabeth Morgan played Joan.

Thomas's son John Stoner ( 22 March 1654 – 19 November 1689 ) married on 8 July 1675 Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and wife Jane Conyers, daughter of Sir John Conyers.

* Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 5th Earl of Waterford ( 1500 – 1560 )

* Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, 11th Earl of Waterford ( 1623 – 1667 )

* Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 10th Baron Furnivall ( 1500 – 1560 )

* Sir John Manners of Haddon Hall, grandfather of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and great-grandfather of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury.

* Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 24 May 1548 – 28 September 1560

Then followed onto the scene three successful headmasters-Walter Lee Sargant ( 1902-29 ) under whom numbers rose to over 200 with consequent new buildings, Francis Cecil Doherty ( 1929-34 ), who went on to be headmaster of Lancing ), and Grosvenor Talbot Griffith ( 1935-57 ) who took the numbers to over three hundred-before the advent of John Buchanan.

Talbot was the only son of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre.

* Francis, Lord Talbot, who married, in 1562, Anne, daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, but died in his father's lifetime ;

Wharton was twice married: first, before 4 July 1518, to Eleanor, daughter of Sir Bryan Stapleton of Wighill, near Healaugh ; and, secondly, on 18 November 1561, to Anne, second daughter of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom he had no issue.

Francis Talbot, later 11th Baron Talbot and 5th Earl of Shrewsbury ( c. 1500-1560 )

* Lady Anne Herbert ( 1550 – 1592 ), married in February 1562, Francis, Lord Talbot, son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.

For London he wrote some musical comedies which brought him to the attention of the wealthy Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer.

* 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( b. 1844 )

The original principal alternative candidate was Francis Bacon, but by the beginning of the twentieth century other candidates, typically aristocrats, were put forward, most notably Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

* October 5 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( d. 1934 )

** Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham ( d. 1666 )

* Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester ( 1844 – 1905 ), British nobleman and amateur cricketer

His eldest son and heir apparent was Francis, Viscount Drumlanrig, who was rumoured to have been engaged in a relationship with the Liberal Prime Minister, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

Rosegill Estate, a Middlesex County plantation first constructed in 1649, served as the temporary seat of the colony under two royal Governors of Virginia, ( Sir Henry Chicheley, who served under Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway, and Lord Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham ).

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.

* Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds ( 1759 – 1799 ), politician and Foreign Secretary

* Francis Wemyss-Charteris, 9th Earl of Wemyss, 5th Earl of March ( 1796 – 1883 )

While twins have been of interest to scholars since early civilization, such as the early physician Hippocrates ( 5th c. BCE ), who attributed similar diseases in twins to shared material circumstances, and the stoic philosopher Posidonius ( 1st c. BCE ), who attributed such similarities to shared astrological circumstances, the modern history of the twin study derives from Sir Francis Galton's pioneering use of twins to study the role of genes and environment on human development and behavior.

They had one child, Francis Godolphin Osborne ( styled Marquess of Carmarthen, later 5th Duke of Leeds and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ), who was born on 29 January 1751.

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

The name of Gleichen is taken by the family descended from Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg through his marriage with Laura Wilhelmina Seymour, sister of the 5th Marquess of Hertford and daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, a branch of the Hohenlohe family having at one time owned part of the county of Gleichen.

The main land holdings and Ragley Hall were inherited by his distant cousin, Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, descended from a younger son of the 1st Marquess who had died in 1794.

* The Enemy of Europe: The Enemy of Our Enemies by Francis Parker Yockey and Revilo P. Oliver ISBN 0-942094-00-X Oliver's part 2nd section 3rd 4th 5th and 6th

* Francis Richard Charles Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, 5th Earl Brooke ( 1853 – 1924 )

Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds KG, PC ( 29 January 1751 – 31 January 1799 ), styled Marquess of Carmarthen until 1789, was a British politician.

The son of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, and Elizabeth Alington ( 1635 – 1692 ), he succeeded his brother Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset, to the dukedom when the latter was shot in 1678.

They were parents to George Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford, Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford and Francis Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Gathering on Sanssouci in the Marble Hall, with Voltaire, Casanova, d ' Argens, La Mettrie, James Francis Edward Keith | James Keith, George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal | George Keith, Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg, Christoph Ludwig von Stille, Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz and Algarotti.

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.

The British Association came to his aid, and the Earl of Ellesmere — then Lord Francis Egerton — gave him yet more efficient help.

Literary scholars say that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship, and that catalogues of similarities between incidents in the plays and the life of an aristocrat are flawed as arguments because similar lists have been drawn up for many competing candidates, such as Francis Bacon and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

" Francis James Child indeed retitled Child ballad 102 ; though it was titled The Birth of Robin Hood, its clear lack of connection with the Robin Hood cycle ( and connection with other, unrelated ballads ) led him to title it Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter in his collection.

The Spanish and the Dutch Republic outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships ; however, The Spanish lost as a result of bad weather on the English Channel and poor planning and logistics, and in the face of the skills of Sir Francis Drake and Charles Howard, the second Baron Howard of Effingham ( later first Earl of Nottingham ).

Sir Francis Dashwood and the Earl of Sandwich are alleged to have been members of a Hellfire Club that met at the George and Vulture Inn throughout the 1730s.

Of the original twelve, some are regularly identified: Dashwood, Robert Vansittart, Thomas Potter, Francis Duffield, Edward Thompson, Paul Whitehead and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

* January 1 – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere ( d. 1857 )

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

* Francis Aungier is made the first Earl of Longford.

* March 23 – Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland ( b. c. 1580 )

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

* June 16 – Battle of Stoke Field: The rebellion of pretender Lambert Simnel, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.

** Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland ( d. 1632 )