Francis Mowatt (politician)

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Cambridge

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|term_start = 18 August 1854

|term_end = 28 March 1857

|alongside = Robert Adair

|predecessor = Kenneth Macaulay
John Harvey Astell

|successor = Kenneth Macaulay
Andrew Steuart

|office2 = Member of Parliament
for Penryn and Falmouth

|term_start2 = 30 July 1847

|term_end2 = 8 July 1852

|alongside2 = Howel Gwyn

|predecessor2 = John Vivian
James Hanway Plumridge

|successor2 = Howel Gwyn
James William Freshfield

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|birth_date = 1803

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|nationality = British

|party = Radical

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|spouse = Sarah Sophia Barnes

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Francis Mowatt (1803 – 12 February 1891){{Rayment-hc|c|1|date=April 2018}}{{Rayment-hc|p|1|date=April 2018}} was a British Radical politician.

Mowatt married Sarah Sophia, daughter of Captain Barnes of Romford, and they had at least one son, Francis Mowatt, a British civil servant.{{cite ODNB|title=Mowatt, Sir Francis|last=Wright|first=Maurice|id=35137|date=21 May 2009}}

Mowatt was first elected Radical MP for Penryn and Falmouth at the 1847 general election, and held the seat until 1852 when he unsuccessfully sought election at Cambridge. He was later elected MP for the latter seat at a by-election in 1854—caused by the 1852 result being declared void due to bribery and treating. He held the seat until 1857, when he did not seek re-election, and was unsuccessful when he again stood in 1859.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}{{cite book|last1=Collet|first1=Collet Dobson|title=History of the Taxes on Knowledge: Their Origin and Repeal|date=1899|publisher=T. Fisher Unwin|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/historytaxesonk02collgoog/page/n115 93]|url=https://archive.org/details/historytaxesonk02collgoog|accessdate=22 April 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000421/18540805/049/0005|accessdate=22 April 2018|work=Cambridge Chronicle and Journal|date=5 August 1854|title=To the electors of Cambridge|pages=4–5|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}