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Francis, Sir Philip
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| Civil servant, born in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and after serving in minor government posts became in 1773 a member of the Council of Bengal. In 1780 he fought a duel with Warren Hastings, with whom he was always disagreeing, and was seriously wounded. He returned to England in 1781 and entered parliament in 1784. He continued his vendetta against Hastings by publishing a number of defamatory pamphlets. He is the probable author of the anonymous ‘Junius Letters’ - a series of political letters published in the Public Advertiser (1769–72). |
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