Sir Francis Head, 4th Baronet

Francis was educated at Christ Church, Oxford University; matriculated 10 October 1712, B.A.

Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), a prominent Jacobite cleric who was the Dean of Christ Church from 1711–13.

Sir Francis Head would have continued an acquaintance with Atterbury who on leaving Oxford had become the Bishop of Rochester (1713–21); the City of Rochester is very close to the Head ancestral seat at Higham, "a pleasant seat in this parish, situated at almost the south-east extremity of it, about a mile northward from the London road to Dover.

It stands on a hill, and commands a most extensive prospect both of the Medway and Thames, the Channel below the Nore, and a vast tract of country both in Kent and Essex.

who inclosed a park round it (since disparked) and greatly improved the adjoining grounds.