Robert Francis Peel

Robert Francis Peel (30 April 1874 – August 1924) was an English soldier, Conservative politician and Governor of Saint Helena. Robert was the grandson of William Yates Peel and Great Grandson of Sir Sir Robert Peel 1st Baronet .

Peel joined the Coldstream Guards in 1898, serving in South Africa and retiring in 1909. He then became Conservative Member of Parliament for Woodbridge, Suffolk from 1910 to 1920. He resigned his seat in 1920 to become Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St Helena, until his death.

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Robert Francis (poet)

Robert Francis (August 12, 1901; Upland, Pennsylvania – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Life

Robert Francis was born on August 12, 1901 in Upland, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard University in 1923. He would later attend the Graduate School of Education at Harvard where he once said that he felt that he'd come home. He lived in a small house he built himself in 1940, which he called Fort Juniper, near Cushman Village in Amherst, Massachusetts. One of his poetic mentors was Robert Frost, and indeed Francis's first volume of poems, Stand Here With Me (1936), displays a poetic voice eerily reminiscent of Frost's own in carefully crafted nature poems. Frost once said: "poetry is the only acceptable way to say one thing and mean another."

Later work

Francis published very little during the 1940s–1950s. He decided that "for better or worse, I was a poet and there was really nothing else for me to do but go on being a poet. It was too late to change even if I had wanted to. Poetry was my most central, intense and inwardly rewarding experience." In 1960, Francis published The Orb Weaver, which revived his reputation as a poet.

Robert Francis (barrister)

Sir Robert (Anthony) Francis, QC is a British barrister born on 4 April 1950. He specialises in medical law, including medical and mental health treatment and capacity issues, clinical negligence and professional discipline. He has appeared as a barrister for and chaired several high profile inquiries into medical controversies/scandals.

He qualified as Bachelor of Law (LL.B) (Hons) at Exeter University. He has been a barrister since 1973 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992. He is a Recorder (part-time Crown Court judge) and authorised to sit as a deputy High Court Judge. He is a governing Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, where he has chaired its Education and Training Committee.

Notable inquiry work as barrister

He appeared as a barrister in inquiries for various NHS scandals: