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FRANKS (or FRANCKE), (EVELYN) CHARLES, son of Abraham Franks (or Francke) (qv); b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1734 (as Francke, Evelyn Charles); KS (aged 14) 1737 (as Franks, Charles); left Midsummer 1740; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Jul 1740, removed from books 15 Dec 1742; dead by 21 Apr 1753 when will proved.

FRANKS, ----; b.; adm. 22 Apr 1767; in school list Oct 1767. [Whitmore notes “of Suffolk”]

FRANKS, ---; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1767; in school list May 1771.

Franks, Francis David, son of Maurice Cardinali Franks OBE, bank official, of Wimbledon, and Marion Gillian, d. of John Edmund Melhuish of Hampstead; b. 11 Apr. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (R); left Dec. 1936; RN Coll. Dartmouth; Sub- Lieut. RN June 1942, Lieut. Apr. 1944, Lieut. ­ Cdr Apr. 1952, retd Apr. 1963; training and admin. man. with Pressed Steel Co., Rootes Press ings Scotland, Chrysler UK, and Peugeot Talbot Motor Co., 1964-86; m. 15 Oct. 1955 Marion Conway, d. of Peter Foley of Norwalk, Conn., USA.

Franks, Rudolph Keane, son of Edward Franks, of Tooting, a clerk in the India Office, by Jane Grace, daughter of George Cattermole, R. A.; b. June 7, 1879; adm. April 27, 1893 (H); left April 1896; in the service of the P. & O. Steamship Navigation Co. (Malta and Bombay) 1897-1909; enlisted in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry) as a Trooper in Aug. 1914, and went out to the western front in the following month; 2nd Lieut. N. Somerset Yeomanry July 18, 1915; Musketry Instructor 1916; Lieut. July 1, 1917, and Adjutant with the rank of Capt. until demob.; M.B.E. June 3, 1919; at different times a breeder of pedigree dogs in Oxfordshire and Somerset, and an antique dealer at Sulgrave; m. 1st March 11, 1922, Charlotte Margaret, daughter of Major George Holland, V. D., of Birchington, Kent; 2nd June 15, 1943, Marie Kathleen, 2nd daughter of Rev. George Marie Capell, Rector of Passenham, Northants; d. 29 Dec. 1970.

FRASER (or FRAIZER), CHARLES, second son of Sir Alexander Fraser (or Fraizer), Bart., MD FRCP, Physician in Ordinary to Charles I and II, and his first wife Elizabeth Dowchly; b.; at school in 1660; KS 1664; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1667, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1667, scholar 1668; BA 1670/1; MA 1674; MD 1678; Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1673 - c. 1683; Physician in Ordinary to Charles II, James II and William III from 25 Aug 1677; FRCP 1684; said to have become insane c. 1698; translated some of Plutarch’s Lives and was possibly the translator of Marana’s Letters of a Turkish Spy; dead by 2 Feb 1700.

Fraser, Francis William Ion Victor, son of Major Francis Fraser, of Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire, by Beatrice, daughter of Capt. Henderson Macdonald, of Caskieben, in the same co.; b. April 28, 1887; adm. Jan. 16, 1902 (R); left Dec. 1904; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders Aug. 29, 1906; Lieut. June 3, 1911; employed with West African Frontier Force Sept. 1, 1911 - Aug. 4, 1914; Capt. Nov. 13, 1914; employed under the Air Ministry April 1, 1918 - June 11, 1919, and by the Colonial Office Aug. 6, 1920 - Nov. 19, 1922; served on the N. W. Frontier oflndia 1908, and in Great War I, and was wounded; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916; M.C. Jan. 1, 1916; O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1919; retired from the army with rank of Major, Jan. 11, 1928; Flying Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Sept. 3, 1939; acting Sqdn.-Ldr.; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1945; m. Sept. 30, 1919, Naomi, youngest daughter of Frederick Innes Comins, of Caergwrle, co. Denbigh; d. Nov. 3, 1962.

Fraser, Ian Jasper, brother of Kenneth Gordon Fraser (q.v.); b. July 20, 1900; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left July 1914; a merchant; m. Feb. 24, 1926, Olive, daughter of Stewart Greenwood, of Bromley, Kent; d. Dec. 1986.

Fraser, James Graham Farncombe, son of Arthur Fraser and Phyllis Mary, d. of Harry Farncombe of Southsea, Hants; b. 1 May 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (G); left July 1954; Worcester Coll. Oxf., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1961; Guy’s Hosp. Med. Sch. 1959-62, BM BCh 1961; FRCS 1967; ENT surgeon Univ. Coll. Hosp. 1971; m. 1963 Patricia Mary Fraser MD, d. of John G. Thompson, engineer, of Totteridge; d. 8 Feb. 1994.