FRANCIS, ----; b.; at school 1569 (Chapter Muniments 54019); chorister; a pensioner (Widow Perryn).
FRANCIS, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 7) Aug 1752; in school list 1754.
FRANCIS, ROBERT; b.; adm. 13 Jan 1772; chorister.
FRANCIS, THOMAS; b.; adm.; BB 1712-9; in under school list 1715.
FRANCIS, WILLIAM LEWIS, eldest son of Rev. James Francis, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 8 Dec 1833; adm. (Scott’s) 22 Sep 1848, BB; mentioned in F. Markham, Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster, pp 62, 168; Oriel Coll. Oxford, adm. bible clerk 3 Mar 1852, matr. 3 May 1852.
FRANCKE, PAUL MORTIMER, eldest son of Axel Patrik Francke, London, formerly of Gothenburg, Sweden, merchant, and Ella, dau. of Mortimer Porter, New York, USA, lawyer; b. 24 May 1866; adm. (D) 12 Jun 1879, exhibitioner; QS 27 May 1880; left May 1885; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1885; BA 1888; MA 1919; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 17 Nov 1890; Revising Barrister 1898-1914; Counsel to Board of Trade in bankruptcy matters 1913-7; Joint Secretary, Aliens Advisory Committee 1915-8; Registrar of High Court in Bankruptcy from Oct 1917; d. unm. 21 Nov 1929.
Francke, Victor Ernest, brother of Paul Mortimer Francke (q.v.); b. Jan. 13, 1872; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (G); left July 1887; Trin. Coll. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1890; appointed ViceConsul in Siberia July 12, 1918, and was employed at Vladivostok until Feb. 1919, when his appointment terminated; believed d. 1936.
FRANCKLIN, EDWARD; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1603, adm. scholar 1603; BA 1607/8; MA 1611; Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1610 - c. 1618; ordained priest (Coventry & Lichfield) 1615; Rector of Bawdeswell, Norfolk 1614 (still 1639); Rector of Billingford, Norfolk 1630.
FRANCKLIN, THOMAS, son of Richard Francklin, Covent Garden, Westminster, bookseller; b.; adm. (aged 6) Jun 1727; KS 1735; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1739, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1739, scholar 2 May 1740; BA 1742/3; MA 1746; DD 1770; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1745, Major Fellow 2 Jul 1746 - c. 1759; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., 27 Jun 1750-9; presided at the Westminster Club Dinner at The Three Tuns, Cambridge 17 Nov 1750, and in consequence of the interference of the Senior Proctor was involved in a dispute with the University authorities (Wordsworth, Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century, 70-5); an Usher at the School c. 1743-6 (?) (but still in Chamberlayne 1748); ordained deacon (Ely) May 1746, priest (Rochester) 6 Mar 1746/7; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 2 Jan 1759-77; lecturer, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden (by 1765); Chaplain in Ordinary to George III Sep 1767 - still 1780; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1774; Rector of Brasted, Kent, from 1 Apr 1777; author, translations of The Letters of Phalaris, 1749, Sophocles, 1759, and Lucian, 1780, also of four plays and other publications; m. 20 Jan 1759 Mary, dau. of --- Venables, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, wine merchant; d. 15 Mar 1784. DNB.
FRANCKLIN, WILLIAM RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS 1677; probably “Mr Richard Fitzgerald, alias Francklin, a kinsman of the Duke of Ormonde, a youth of 18, now a scholar in Westminster”, recommended by the Duke of Ormonde to the Dean of Christ Church for election to Oxford (HMC Ormonde, NS iv, 619); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1679, but apparently did not reside and was never admitted as a Westminster Student.