Francis Whitworth (9 May 1684 – 6 March 1742), of Leybourne, Kent and Blackford, near Minehead, Somerset, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1723 to 1742.
At the 1722 general election he stood for Parliament at Minehead being assured by Lord Carteret that the government would support him.
He also applied for his son to be granted the reversion of the secretary of Barbados, claiming that George I had consented to this but had died before he had signed the warrant.
In 1732 he obtained the post of Surveyor of Woods and Forests North and South of Trent worth £1,000 a year and he held it for the rest of his life.
On 10 May 1733 he opposed a petition from the trustees for Georgia for more money.as he was against the enlargement of colonies, and ‘wished New England at the bottom of the sea.’ He was returned unopposed at the 1734 general election.