Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet

[2][7] After leaving the House of Commons, he became the author of "triple-decker, silver fork novels," producing Arundel, a Tale of the French Revolution in 1840, and four others between 1867 and 1872.

Vincent traveled around the fashionable vacation spots of Europe, including Baden-Baden, where the opening scene of his last novel, The Fitful Fever of a Life, was set in a gambling hall.

According to Captain Gronow, Vincent was a gambler who "contrived to get rid of his magnificent property and then disappeared from society".

Together, they were the parents of one child: Vincent died intestate on 6 July 1880, Debden Hall passed to his daughter Blanche, who sold it to William Fuller-Maitland two years later.

[8] As he died without male issue, the baronetcy was inherited by his grand-uncle Henry Dormer Vincent's son, the Rev.