Surname: Francillon Forename(s): Robert Edward b. 25 March 1841. d. 12 May 1919. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Novelist, short story writer, and poet. Pseudonym: “R. E. F.” Born in Gloucestershire.
Educated at the University of Cambridge. Called to the bar in 1864. Staff writer for
the Globe (1872-1894). Author of a book of short stories, Jack Doyle’s Daughter (1894), and an autobiography,Mid-Victorian Memories (1914). Biographical information: Curran Index; Sutherland, p. 232. (AC, CC)