Francis Frederick Brandt (1819, Gawsworth Rectory, Cheshire – 6 December 1874, 8 Figtree Court, Temple, London) was an English barrister and author.
Francis Brandt, rector of Aldford, Cheshire, 1843–50, who died in 1870, and Ellinor, second daughter of Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, Lancashire.
He was educated at Macclesfield grammar school, entered at the Inner Temple in 1839, and practised for some years as a special pleader.
He was a successful and popular leader of the Chester and Knutsford sessions, had a fair business in London, especially as an arbitrator or referee, was one of the revising barristers on his circuit, and was employed for many years as a reporter for the Times in the common pleas.
a Short Treatise on the Law of the Land as it affects Pugilism, in which he attempted to show that prize-fighting was not of itself illegal.