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(Francis), English Radical reformer and tailor; b. 1779 at Charing Cro . He early became a member of the London, Corresponding Society. He wrote to Carlile’s Republican and Lion . A friend of T. Hardy, H. Tooke, James Mill, Bentham, Roebuck, He the ring ton, and Hibbert (who puts him in his list of English Freethinkers). He was connected with all the advanced movements of his time and has left many manuscripts illustrating the politics of that period, which are now in the British Museum. He always profe ed to be an Atheist—see Reasoner , 26 March, ’54. Died at Kensington, 1 Jan. 1854.