Charles King Francis (3 February 1851 – 28 October 1925) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er active 1870–79 who played for

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. He was born in

Upminster Upminster is a suburb, suburban town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Havering. Located east-northeast of Charing Cross, it is one of the district centres identified for development in the London Plan. Historically a rural ...

; died in

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, Dorset.Charles Francis at ESPNcricinfo
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was also a cricketer.Charles Francis at CricketArchive
/ref> Francis was educated at

Rugby School Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...

and

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...

. After graduating he became a

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and practised in London and south-east England. He was a stipendiary magistrate (now called a district judge) from 1896.FRANCIS, Charles King
, ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)

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1851 births 1925 deaths People from Upminster Sportspeople from the London Borough of Havering Cricketers from Essex English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Oxford University cricketers People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford English barristers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers I Zingari cricketers Gentlemen cricketers North v South cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers Stipendiary magistrates (England and Wales) {{England-cricket-bio-1850s-stub