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 [es]
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.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

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