Francis Goldsmith (MP for Chippenham)

Francis Goldsmith (by 1518 – 26 March 1586) of London and Crayford, Kent, was an English politician.

He was a servant of Henry VIII's sixth wife, Katherine Parr. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chippenham in 1547, for Mitchell in October 1553 and Helston in 1559. In 1551 he married Joan (d.1569), daughter of Clement Newce of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire. His daughter Anne married William Lewin.

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