Born in Tunbridge Wells, Fowler was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
He and his older brother, Henry Watson Fowler, wrote The King's English together, an influential book published in 1906.
Later they worked on what became Fowler's Modern English Usage,[2] but before it was finished, Francis died of tuberculosis, picked up during his service with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I.
Henry dedicated Modern English Usage to Francis, writing, "he had a nimbler wit, a better sense of proportion, and a more open mind, than his twelve-year-older partner."
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