Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet

Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet (3 March 1803 – 6 July 1880) was an English Whig politician.

Early life Vincent was born in Bloomsbury on 3 March 1803. He was a son of Sir Francis Vincent, 9th Baronet and Jane (née Bouverie) Vincent. He "belonged to a very old family, which had possessed land in Leicestershire in the early fourteenth century, migrated to Northamptonshire and settled in Surrey, where the estate of Stoke d’Abernon, near Leatherhead, came into their hands by marriage into the Lyfield family."

His paternal grandparents were Sir Francis Vincent, 8th Baronet, the British Ambassador to Venice in 1790 (and brother of Henry Dormer Vincent) and the former Mary Muilman-Trench Chiswell, daughter and heiress of Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell, whose Essex estate at Debden thus came to the Vincents. He was re-elected in 1832, and held the seat until the 1835 general election, when he did not stand again.

Later life After leaving the House of Commons, he became the author of "triple-decker, silver fork novels," producing Arundel, a Tale of the French Revolution in 1840, and four others between 1867 and 1872. Vincent traveled around the fashionable vacation spots of Europe, including Baden-Baden, where the opening scene of his last novel, The Fitful Fever of a Life, was set in a gambling hall. According to Captain Gronow, Vincent was a gambler who "contrived to get rid of his magnificent property and then disappeared from society". As he died without male issue, the baronetcy was inherited by his grand-uncle Henry Dormer Vincent's son, the Rev. Frederick Vincent, himself father of the 12th, 15th and 16th (and last) Baronets (who was Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon).