The historian Charles Francis Adams called him `` a crude and half-crazy thinker ''.

Mrs. John Charles Cotty is chairman of publicity for the country fair and Mrs. Francis G. Felske and Mrs. Francis Smythe, of posters.

Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

Charles V strongly favoured a council, but needed the support of King Francis I of France, who attacked him militarily.

ca: Charles Francis Hockett

He was a member of the Darwin – Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.

But just as quickly, late in 1580 he denounced a group of Catholics, among them Charles Arundel, Francis Southwell and Henry Howard, for treasonous activities and asking the Queen's mercy for his own, now repudiated, Catholicism.

It was not a commercial success in this form, and left the way free for Charles Francis Jenkins and his projector, the Phantoscope, with the first showing before an audience in June 1894.

Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 – 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 – 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.

In military affairs Francis had allowed his brother, the Archduke Charles, extensive control over the army during the Napoleonic wars.

Charles Francis Badini created the Original Fanology or Ladies ' Conversation Fan which was published by William Cock in London in 1797.

Other theories included the pangenesis of Charles Darwin ( which had both acquired and inherited aspects ) and Francis Galton's reformulation of pangenesis as both particulate and inherited.

From September 1520 to August 25 he was the Republic's ambassador to Charles V, with whom Venice was soon at war, instructed to defend the Republic's alliance with Francis I of France.

The timing of Henry's case was very unfortunate ; it was 1527 and the Pope had been taken prisoner by the emperor Charles V, Catherine's nephew and the most powerful man in Europe, for siding with his archenemy Francis I of France.

After his wife's death, his son, Charles Francis Adams, had him reinterred with his wife in the expanded family crypt in the United First Parish Church across the street, next to his parents.

Adams ' youngest son, Charles Francis Adams ( who named his own son John Quincy ), also pursued a career in diplomacy and politics.

In 1870 Charles Francis built the first memorial presidential library in the United States, to honor his father.

* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.

* 1539 – Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

* 1718 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician ( d. 1794 )

* June 14 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland ( b. 1718 )

* July 5 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland ( d. 1794 )

It was named for Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford, later 1st Marquess of Hertford.

In Paris, he landed with letters of introductions for Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, the British Ambassador to France and his secretary, David Hume, the already famous philosopher, who both interceded in his favour before the Comte de Saint-Florentin.

After Georgiana's death in 1851 he married secondly, Adelaide Horatia Seymour ( 1825 – 1877 ), daughter of Sir Horace Seymour and a great-granddaughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, on 9 August 1854.

In 1750 his son Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Baron Conway, was created Viscount Beauchamp and Earl of Hertford.

* Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway ( 1679 – 1732 )

* Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Baron Conway, ( 1718 – 1794 ) ( created Earl of Hertford in 1750 and Marquess of Hertford in 1793 )

* Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford ( 1718 – 1794 )

* Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford ( 1777 – 1842 )

The third creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1793 in favour of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford.

She married Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford.

They were parents to Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford and other eleven children.

By the late-18th century only the north wall of the bailey survived and the roof and upper floors of the keep had badly decayed, and Francis Seymour-Conway, the 2nd Marquess of Hertford, proposed destroying the building in 1805.

In 1828, when the medieval church was demolished, the clock was removed by art collector Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford to his mansion in Regent's Park ; during World War I, a new charity for blinded soldiers was lent the house, and took the name St Dunstan's from the clock.

His friends at the Royal Academy such as Sir Thomas Lawrence, George Dance, Benjamin West and Joseph Farington were able to introduce him to patrons such as: John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn ; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ; Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet ; George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ; Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford ; Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst ; John ' Mad Jack ' Fuller and William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale.

Later the Georgian villa was known as St Dunstan's, because of the distinctive clock that hung in front of it, purchased by art collector Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford when material from St Dunstan-in-the-West was auctioned off in 1829-30 prior to the church's demolition.

* 1812 – 1842: Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

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He was the grandson of Lord Hugh Seymour and a great-grandson of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, and the elder brother of Henry Seymour and Lady Laura Seymour.

Captain Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford KG ( 22 February 1800 – 25 August 1870 ) was the son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford.