About Francis Talfourd
Lived 1828 – 1862 (aged 33–34). Francis Talfourd was a British barrister and playwright.
Francis Talfourd (also Frank) (1828–1862) was an English barrister, better known as a dramatist.
Life He was the eldest son of Thomas Noon Talfourd, by his wife Rachel, eldest daughter of John Towill Rutt. He was educated at Eton College from 1841 to 1845, on 15 May in which year he matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford. Talfourd was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 17 November 1852, and occasionally went on the circuit.
Talfourd died at Mentone on 9 March 1862, in his thirty-fourth year.
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English barrister and dramatist
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Francis Talfourd died on 9 March 1862.
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