Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet
Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet (3 March 1803 – 6 July 1880) was an English Whig politician.
He was born in Bloomsbury, the son of Sir Francis Vincent, 9th Baronet, and Jane Bouverie. His family was long-established, with lands in Leicestershire and Debden Hall in Essex; his grandfather was the 8th Baronet, a former British ambassador, and his mother came from the Bouverie family of MPs.
He went to Eton College and, after a brief cavalry career, was elected MP for St Albans in 1831, serving with Richard Godson and Henry George Ward. He was a Whig and remained in Parliament until 1835, when he did not stand again.
After politics, he wrote fiction, including Arundel: A Tale of the French Revolution (1840) and other works through the 1860s and early 1870s. He traveled in Europe, and one of his later novels opens in a Baden-Baden gambling hall; some sources describe him as a gambler who spent his fortune and faded from society.
On 10 May 1824 he married Augusta Elizabeth Herbert, and they had one daughter, Blanche Vincent.
He died intestate (without a will) in 1880 at age 77. Debden Hall passed to Blanche, who sold it in 1882. Because he left no male heir, the baronetcy passed to his grand-uncle Henry Dormer Vincent’s son, the Rev. Frederick Vincent, the ancestor of later Vincent baronets and the Viscount D’Abernon.
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