Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934) was an English academic, the first Roman Catholic to act as a tutorial fellow in the University of Oxford since the 16th century.

He was born in Montreux, Switzerland, the son of David Urquhart and Harriet Angelina Fortescue.

[1][2] His father died in 1877, and his uncle Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford, played an important role in bringing him up; his middle name Fortescue was added in recognition.

He settled into a life as a "college man", spending much of his time entertaining students, whom he would also take on "reading parties" to his chalet at Chamonix in the vacation.

Urquhart was a contributor to The Month, the Journal of Theological Studies, and the Dublin Review, and wrote articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia,[1] but, as the college history puts it "he made no direct contribution of his own to historical scholarship".