Convers Francis, an American clergyman and author, born at West Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 9, 1795, died at Cambridge, April 7, 18G3. He graduated at Harvard college in 1815, and after completing his studies at the divinity school became in 1819 minister of the Unitarian church at Watertown, Mass. In 1842 he was appointed Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence and the pastoral care in Harvard university. He published a number of discourses and lectures, and wrote the lives of John Eliot and Sebastian Rale for Sparks's "American Biography," and memoirs of Dr. John Allyn, Dr. Gamaliel Bradford, and Judge John Davis for the "Massachusetts Historical Collections."