Francis Charles Hughes-Hallett (1838 – 22 June 1903) was a Royal Artillery officer and Conservative politician who represented Rochester in the British House of Commons.

He was involved[citation needed] in the investigation of the murder of Martha Tabram in Whitechapel in 1888, one of the cases linked with Jack the Ripper.

In 1871, Hughes-Hallett married Catherine Rosalie Greene, the widow of Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn and of Reverend Harry Dupuis.

[1] As Smith, who was Miss Selwyn's uncle, wrote to Emilie Hughes-Hallett, "I went to your husband's bedroom shortly before midnight and found that he was not there.

Hughes-Hallett also "admitted accompanying [Beatrice Selwyn] to various hotels—the Bear at Havant, the Crown at Emsworth and the Cannon Street Hotel.

[3] As Hughes-Hallett said in his defence, "Regarding the money part of the question, Miss Selwyn some time ago asked me to try to get her better interest on 5,000 pounds than she was getting.

As The New York Times sympathetically stated in 1888, "the critical press are so unkind as to stigmatize him as a social leper ..."[7] Still, it pointed out, he did not enjoy the "Parliamentary session, however, as no member will sit on the same bench with him".