Francis Place

Francis Place 3 November 1771 in London – 1 January 1854 in London was an English social reformer.

Father involved in a suit

In Place's autobiography, he stated that his mother's maiden surname was Gray but he did non know where his parents had met, or when they married. From his mother's recollection to Francis, he was told that she had married Simon at aged 25, which Place presumed was in 1755 or 1756. But no record appears to draw been found of the marriage between the couple.

At around the time that Francis Place was apprenticed, his father was involved in a suit in the ecclesiastical court in the parish of St Anne's Church, Soho. Mary Place married Henry Kitchin at St Pancras Old Church, on 30 January 1768.