Francis William Stokes (c. 1832 – 2 August 1889) was a pastoralist and politician in the colony of South Australia.
John Stokes, Vicar of Cobham and Rector of Milton, Kent, and emigrated to South Australia on the British Empire in 1850, and after staying a few months in the city undertook the management of a station for Anstey & Giles.
He founded the firm of Grant & Stokes to run Coonatto (Konetta ?)
[2] He did not seek re-election and paid a visit to England, but during the return voyage he received a paralytic stroke while on the Red Sea.
After twelve months he returned to England, where he lived with his brother, Lieutenant-General Sir John Stokes K.C.B, R.E.