Francisco Fernández de Béthencourt

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is de Béthencourt.

The Most Excellent Francisco Fernández de Béthencourt
Pictured in the early 1900s
Born	(1850-07-27)27 July 1850 Arrecife, Spain
Died	2 April 1916(1916-04-02) (aged 65) Madrid, Spain
Seat K of the Real Academia Española
In office 10 May 1914 – 2 April 1916
Preceded by	Andrés Mellado
Succeeded by	Juan Armada y Losada

Francisco Fernández de Béthencourt (27 July 1850 – 2 April 1916), was a Spanish writer, politician and genealogist. He was a member of parliament for Santa Cruz de Tenerife and later a senator at the Cortes on behalf of the conservative party.

He was born at Arrecife, in the Canary Islands, to Francisco-Ramón Fernández-Martínez y Delgado and María de la Concepción de Bethencourt y Mújica.

In 1914, he was admitted into the Royal Spanish Academy. He died 2 years later, 2 April 1916 in Madrid.