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'''Francis Baskerville''' (born 1615) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

Baskerville was the son of Thomas Baskerville of Richardston, Wiltshire, and his wife, Joan Lor.<ref name=Burke>[https://archive.org/details/heraldichistory01burk/page/93 <!-- quote="Francis Baskerville". --> John Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'']</ref>

In April 1640, Baskerville was elected as a Member of Parliament for Marlborough in the Short Parliament.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref><ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=116090 ''Parliamentary History: 1629–1660'', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 5 (1957), pp. 132–154. Date accessed: 5 February 2011] Note – J. Waylen, ''History of Marlborough'', p. 522, lists the borough's members as Sir William Carnaby and Sir Francis Seymour, but Seymour was returned as knight of the shire in April.</ref>

Baskerville married Margaret Glanville, daughter of Sir John Glanville of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, in April 1635.<ref name=Burke/>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} |- {{s-vac| reason= Parliament suspended since 1629}} {{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Marlborough | with= Sir William Carnaby | years=1640 }} {{s-aft | after= John Francklyn | after2 = Sir Francis Seymour }} {{s-end}}

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