Francis Talfourd

He was educated at Eton College from 1841 to 1845, on 15 May in which year he matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford.

[2] Talfourd was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 17 November 1852, and occasionally went on the circuit.

On 26 December 1854 he brought out at the St. James's Abou Hassan, or the Hunt after Happiness, in which John Laurence Toole made one of his early appearances.

With Henry James Byron he collaborated in bringing out his last piece, The Miller and his Men, at the Strand Theatre on 9 April 1860.

[1] Talfourd married, on 5 November 1861, Frances Louisa Morgan, second daughter of Josiah Towne, a solicitor of Margate.