Francillon, ROBERT EDWARD, novelist, was born at Gloucester in 1841. He was called to the bar in 1864, but in 1868 he made his début as a novel-writer with Grace Owen's Engagement in Blackwood's Magazine. Since then he has written, amongst other novels, Olympia (1874), A Dog and his Shadow (1876), and King or Knave (1888); also sketches of London life, National Characteristics of London (1872).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 790–791
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