Francis Patrick Cumberland (15 April 1880 - 4 January 1951) was an English politician and political theorist, serving as the controversial Premier of England from 1934-1937. As a proponent of a strong, centralized state as opposed to the loose, decentralized communal state envisioned by his political rival David Barham, he was responsible for the mass industrialization of England in the early to mid-1930's as the Deputy Chairman of the Socialist Party and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.