Vice-Admiral Francis Pickmore (c. 1756 – 24 February 1818) was a Royal Navy officer and colonial governor.
Francis Pickmore was born in Chester in England and joined the Royal Navy around 1770.
[3] Pickmore's term was marked by strife and severe economic depression that had hit the island following the Napoleonic wars and influx of Irish immigrants.
Pickmore is noted as the first governor of Newfoundland to stay the winter.
He died in St. John's and Captain John Bowker, a senior officer under Pickmore's command and commander of Pickmore's flagship HMS Sir Francis Drake, acted as governor until Sir Charles Hamilton arrived.