Educated at Tonbridge School, Francis was a right-handed opening or middle-order batsman as a cricketer and a stand-off half or centre three-quarter as a rugby player. He first played cricket for Somerset in 1921, the year he left school, making 36 in his third match against Leicestershire, but otherwise making little impact. He reappeared in two games in the 1922 season, with similar results.
In autumn 1922 Francis went to Cambridge University and won the first of four blues for rugby union that winter, playing in The Varsity Match against Oxford University as stand-off half in partnership with the scrum-half Arthur Young; the partnership was maintained across the next two seasons and Francis won a fourth blue as a centre in 1925. Young was capped by England in 1924 and Francis joined him in the England team for four internationals in the 1925/26 season.
A native of Chester, Francis was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was admitted B.A. 19 June 1540, and M.A. 7 July 1544. According to Anthony Wood, he was acting as deputy to John Warner, the first Regius Professor of Physic at Oxford, by 1551, having had backing from Walter Wright to switch in 1550 from an unpromising theological career. He received the degree of M.B. and license to practise 9 March 1555, and commenced M.D. the following 29 July. At the beginning of 1555 he succeeded Warner in the regius professorship, which he resigned in 1561 to become Provost of The Queen's College. The Lewis Evans who graduated B.A. at Christ Church in 1554, a tutorial pupil of Francis, has been tentatively identified as Lewis Evans the Catholic controversialist of the later 1560s.
The appointment of Francis was not a popular one, and disturbances took place at his inauguration. He retired from the provostship in 1563. He was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians, 21 October 1560, at the comitia specially convened for that purpose. He was censor in 1561 and the three following years. He was provisionally named elect 30 September 1562 in place of John Clement who had gone into exile, and was definitely appointed to the post 12 May 1564. He was President of the college in 1568, and consiliarius in 1571.
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The Bradford Era
15 Mar 2025
The Bradford Era
15 Mar 2025