Francis Pym

Who was Francis Pym?

Francis Pym was a British M.P. and High Sheriff.

He was the son of William and Elizabeth née Kingsley Pym and lived at the family seat of Hasells Hall in Sandy, Bedfordshire. He was a Whig Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire from 1806 to 1818, and from 1820 to 1826. He was also High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1791.

He married Anne Palmer in 1784; they had four sons: Francis, Revd William Wollaston, Robert and Charles and two daughters Anne and Catherine who all survived them, and two sons who did not, one having died in infancy and the other, John, a Lieutenant in the 13th Light Dragoons, having been killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

He was the great-great-great-grandfather of Francis Leslie Pym.