Francis Haywood

Francis Haywood (; 1796–1858) was an English merchant and translator, the first person to translate Kant's Critique of Pure Reason into English.

Life Born in Liverpool, Haywood lived there for most of his life. In 1828 (describing himself as a 'layman of the Church of England', though he was in fact active in Liverpool Unitarian circles) he translated a reply by the theological rationalist Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider to Hugh James Rose's essay on the state of Protestantism in Germany. Haywood's translation of the first Critique appeared anonymously in 1838. There are some papers relating to him at Duke University library.

Works (tr.) Reply to the Rev. Hugh J. Rose's work on the State of Protestantism in Germany by Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider. G. B. Whittaker: London, 1828 (tr.) Critick of pure reason by Immanuel Kant, W. Pickering: London, 1838. Revised translation, 1848. An analysis of Kant's Critick of pure reason, W. Pickering: London, 1844. (tr.) Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution, with an appendix upon the Roman Knights by William Ihne. London, 1853.