Francis Wilfrid Stocks (10 December 1873 – 21 May 1929) was an English cricketer active from 1894 to 1903 who played for Leicestershire. He was born in Market Harborough and died in Framlingham. He appeared in 63 first-class matches as a lefthanded batsman who bowled left arm medium pace. He scored 834 runs with a highest score of 58 and took 208 wickets with a best performance of eight for 22.
Stocks was a son of John Stocks who at that time was vicar of Market Harborough. He was educated at Lancing College, Denstone College and New College, Oxford. He became a schoolteacher and for thirteen years was an assistant master and house-master at Felsted School; then he was headmaster of Framlingham College 1913–1929.
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- Francis Stocks at CricketArchive
- STOCKS, Francis W., Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
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