Francis Goodricke

Sir Francis Lyttelton Holyoake Goodricke, 1st Baronet (1797 – 29 December 1865) was a British landowner and politician. He served as Member of Parliament from 1835 to 1837.

Biography He was born Francis Lyttelton Holyoake, the eldest son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenall, Staffordshire. In 1827 he married Elizabeth Martha, daughter of George Payne of Sulby Hall, Welford.

He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Stafford at the 1835 general election, and shortly afterwards he was created a baronet. In May 1835 he took the Chiltern Hundreds his successor at the borough of Stafford was not elected until early 1837.

Holyoake Goodricke retired from Parliament at the 1837 election. He lived at 19 Arlington Street, London and at Studley Castle, Warwickshire, and was patron of one living. Until 1858 he was a partner in the firm of Holyoake, Goodricke and Co., bankers of Wolverhampton.