Francis Crawford (other)
Francis Crawford may refer to: *Francis Chalmers Crawford (1851–1908), Scottish stockbroker and amateur ornithologist *Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909), American novelist *Francis Crawford of Lymond The ''Lymond Chronicles'' is a series of six historical novels written by Dorothy Dunnett and first published between 1961 and 1975. Set in mid-16th-century Europe and the Mediterranean area, the series tells the story of a young Scottish noblem ...

Francis Chalmers Crawford
Francis Chalmers Crawford FRSE (1851–1908) was a Scottish stockbroker of fame as an amateur botanist and ornithologist. ''Saxifraga crawfordii'' is named after him. He served as President of the Scottish Microscopical Society. He was an avid collector of plant species, especially Bryophytes and Spermatophytes, notably in Perthshire and Orkney but representing almost all areas of the United Kingdom. He often worked in partnership with Harold Stuart Thompson. He also collected in Hungary, Switzerland and Sweden with his friend John Hutton Balfour, many of his specimens being in the Natural History Museum, London. Life He was born in North Berwick on 24 August 1851, the son of Adam Howden Crawford (1804–1882) of the Honourable East India Company, and his wife Margaret Buchan Chalmers (1821–1898). He attended Edinburgh Academy 1863–68 and then trained as a stockbroker. He retired in 1896 and began to focus fully on his botanical interests. In 1897 he became a Fell ...
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Francis Marion Crawford
Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastical stories. Early life Crawford was born in Bagni di Lucca, in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, on August 2, 1854. He was the only son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward. His sister was the writer Mary Crawford Fraser (''aka'' Mrs. Hugh Fraser), and he was the nephew of Julia Ward Howe, the American poet. After his father's death in 1857, his mother remarried to Luther Terry, with whom she had Crawford's half-sister, Margaret Ward Terry, who later became the wife of Winthrop Astor Chanler. He studied successively at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; Cambridge University; University of Heidelberg; and the University of Rome. In 1879, he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited in Allahabad ''The Indian Herald''. Returning to America in February 1881, he ...
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