Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet

Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet (29 August 1723 – 19 February 1794) was an English Master of the Household and Member of Parliament.

[1] He was born the eldest son of Sir Francis Drake, 4th Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1740.

He lived at Nutwell Court on the south coast of Devon.

He was said by Hoskins (1954) "to have wrecked the fine medieval house with his improvements demolishing the two-storied gatehouse with great difficulty in 1755-6 and cutting through the timbered roof of the 14th century chapel to make a plaster ceiling".

He bequeathed almost his whole fortune, including his Nutwell estate and his other lands, to his nephew Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield, the son of his sister Anne Pollexfen Drake and her husband, George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield.