Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1 September 1813 – 20 June 1893) was an English entomologist mainly interested in beetles.
Appointed surgeon in the Navy he served on Australian, West Indian and Mediterranean stations.
He married a Miss Mary Glasson of Cornwall and settled at Trewhiddle near St Austell where his wife's property produced china clay.
His entomological papers listed and described species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace (in Longicornia Malayana), Robert Templeton and other assiduous collectors but not prolific writers on systematic entomology.
[1] Pascoe's 1890 book The Darwinian Theory of the Origin of Species was an attack on natural selection.