Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow

Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, KCMG (9 March 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a British diplomat. He was the last surviving former British colonial governor of The Bahamas.

Thurlow was the second son of the Reverend Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 6th Baron Thurlow, and a grandson of the Liberal politician Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow, who served as Paymaster General under William Ewart Gladstone. In 1971 he succeeded his elder brother, Henry Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 7th Baron Thurlow as 8th Baron Thurlow.