Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet (3 March 1803 – 6 July 1880) was an English Whig politician.

Early life

Vincent was born in

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on 3 March 1803. He was a son of Sir Francis Vincent, 9th Baronet and Jane (

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Bouverie) Vincent. He "belonged to a very old family, which had possessed land in

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in the early fourteenth century, migrated to

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and settled in

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, where the estate of Stoke d’Abernon, near

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, came into their hands by marriage into the Lyfield family." His paternal grandparents were

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, the British Ambassador to Venice in 1790 (and brother of Henry Dormer Vincent) and the former Mary Muilman-Trench Chiswell, daughter and heiress of Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell, whose Essex estate at Debden thus came to the Vincents. His maternal grandparents were the Hon. Edward Bouverie, MP (son of

Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (bapt. 14 October 1694 – 17 February 1761) was an English politician, known as Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet from 1737 to 1747. Early life Lord Folkestone was born Jacob des Bouverie and baptised on ...

) and the celebrated hostess Harriet Fawkener (daughter of Sir Everard Fawkener). Among his maternal family were uncles Edward Bouverie Jr. of

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, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie, and John Bouverie, rector at

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. Vincent graduated from

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in 1817. After Eton, he had a "perfunctory career in the cavalry."

Career

He was elected at the 1831 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the borough of St Albans in

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. He was re-elected in

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, and held the seat until the 1835 general election, when he did not stand again.

Later life

After leaving the House of Commons, he became the author of "triple-decker, silver fork novels," producing ''Arundel, a Tale of the French Revolution'' in 1840, and four others between 1867 and 1872. Vincent traveled around the fashionable vacation spots of Europe, including

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, where the opening scene of his last novel, ''The Fitful Fever of a Life'', was set in a gambling hall. According to Captain Gronow, Vincent was a gambler who "contrived to get rid of his magnificent property and then disappeared from society".

Personal life

On 10 May 1824, He married Augusta Elizabeth Herbert (–1876), the only child of Charles Herbert. Together, they were the parents of one child: * Blanche Vincent (1829–1914), who married John Raymond Cely-Trevilian (1841–1884), son of Maj. Maurice Cely Trevilian. Vincent died intestate on 6 July 1880, Debden Hall passed to his daughter Blanche, who sold it to William Fuller-Maitland two years later. As he died without male issue, the baronetcy was inherited by his grand-uncle Henry Dormer Vincent's son, the Rev. Frederick Vincent, himself father of the 12th, 15th and 16th (and last) Baronets (who was

Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author. He played an important role in the negotiations behind the 1925 Locarno Pact between Germany and its ne ...

).Richard Davenport-Hines,
Vincent, Edgar, Viscount D'Abernon (1857–1941)
, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'',

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, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, retrieved 10 July 2011.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vincent, Francis 1803 births 1880 deaths Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 Baronets in the Baronetage of England