Francis Kilvert

For the English cleric, schoolmaster and antiquary, see Francis Kilvert (antiquary). For the mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, see Francis Edwin Kilvert.

The Reverend

Robert Francis Kilvert
The English diarist Robert Francis Kilvert (1840–1879)
ChurchChurch of England
Personal details
Born(1840-12-03)3 December 1840
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Died23 September 1879(1879-09-23) (aged 38)
Bredwardine, Herefordshire
Photograph of Robert Kilvert (diarist's father) taken about 1870

Robert Francis Kilvert (3 December 1840 – 23 September 1879), known as Francis or Frank, was an English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.