Francis Henry Underwood (12 January 1825 - 1894), Enfield, Massachusetts-born critic and biographer, was American Consul at Glasgow and Leith in Scotland.
He wrote Hand-books of English Literature, Builders of American Literature, Lord of Himself, Man Proposes, and Dr. Gray's Quest, as well as biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier, and the novel Cloud Pictures.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.