Constituency : Torquay 1900-1910, St Austell 1915-18
Francis took Torquay from the Tories.
Francis was a Cambridge-educated barrister from St Austell. He contested Torquay in 1895.
From 1903 to 1908 Francis employed the future suffragette martyr Emily Davison as a governess. She travelled to Italy with the family in 1905.
Francis was created a baronet in 1908.
Francis was defeated in this always tight seat by 30 votes in December 1910.
In 1915 Francis was elected unopposed in St Austell after Thomas Agar-Robartes was killed in action.
Francis stood down in 1918. He remained an active Liberal locally and was Treasurer for the National Liberal Federation from 1927 to 1933.
He died in 1933 aged 73.
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