FRANCKLIN, WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Francklin (qv); b.; adm. 6 Jun 1774; KS 1777 (aged 14); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1781, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1781, aged 18, but did not matr.; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1782; Ensign, 19th Native Infantry 31 Jan 1783; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); Lieut., 20 Oct 1789; Capt., 30 Sep 1803; Maj., 29 Mar 1810; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 4 Jun 1814; Lieut. -Col., 22nd Native Infantry 16 Dec 1814; invalided 1 Oct 1815; Regulating Officer, Bhangulpore 1814-25; retired in India Dec 1825; Librarian and member of Council, Royal Asiatic Society; an oriental scholar of considerable reputation; one of the donors of the Warren Hastings Cup; author, Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia, 1788, and other works; m. 9 Mar 1801 Marian Hastings, dau. of John Collie, Surgeon, EICS Bengal; d. 12 Apr 1839. DNB.
FRANK, BACON, eldest son of Bacon Frank, Campsall, Yorks., Chairman Yorkshire West Riding Quarter Sessions, and Catherine, dau. of John Hoare, Pontefract, Yorks.; nephew of Richard Frank (qv); bapt. Campsall., Yorks. 2 Aug 1770 (IGI); adm. 3 Jun 1782; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons 14 Feb 1789; killed by a fall from his horse at Tonbridge, Kent 15 Jun 1789, aged 18.
FRANK, RICHARD, son of Francis Frank, Norwich, Commissary to the Archdeacon of Suffolk, and Elizabeth, dau. of Waller Bacon MP, Earlham, Norfolk, barrister; b. 14 Mar 1744/5; adm.; Min. Can. 1758; KS 1759; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1762, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1762, scholar 6 May 1763, matr. Mich. 1762; BA 1766; MA 1769; DD 1794; ordained deacon 1 Nov 1767, priest 21 May 1769 (both York); Rector of Alderton-cum-Bawdsey, Suffolk 1769 [check]; Rector of Hardwick with Shelton, Norfolk, from 20 Oct 1779; m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Drake (adm. 1738, qv); d. 18 Aug 1810.
FRANKELIN, RICHARD; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1564-7 (tutor, the Sub-Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54004-15).
Frankish, William Martin, son of William John Frankish, M.R.C.S., of Chelsea; b. April 30, 1895; adm. May 2, 1907 (H); left Dec. 1912; joined the 28th Batt. London Regt.; 2nd Lieut. April 29, 1918; Lieut. 20th Batt. June 1, 1916; m. Aug. 16, 1922, Queenie Emilie Charlotte, eldest daughter of M.P.C. Byrne; a commercial artist and advertising specialist at Southampton.
FRANKLEN, RICHARD, son of Thomas Franklen, Neath, Glamorgan, and Anne, dau. of Richard Crawshay, Cyfarthfa, Glamorgan; b. 1801; adm. 15 Jan 1812; left 12 Mar 1816; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Apr 1818; Cornet, 2nd Life Guards 11 Aug 1827, retd. 7 Nov 1829; of Clemenstone, Bridgend, Glamorgan; DL JP Glamorgan, High Sheriff 1846; m. 1830 Isabella Catherine, fifth dau. of Thomas Mansel Talbot, Margam, Glamorgan; d. 15 Mar 1883.
Franklin, Edward Leslie, son of Andrew Leslie Franklin of Edgbaston, Warks, and Dorothea, d. of Edward Worsfold Mowll, solicitor, of Whitfield, Kent; b. 18 Sept. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (KS); left July 1927; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1927, BA 1931 (1st class hons Classics Pt I), MA 1939; asst master Alleyn's Sch. Dulwich 1931-40; RAFVR (A & SD) in WW2 (Flt Lieut); Principal, War Office (later MOD Army Dept), 1949-1968; retd 1968; d. 29 Dec. 1993.
Franklin, Peter James, brother of Richard Kimber Franklin (qv); b. 28 Feb. 1948; adm. Sept. 1961 (G); left June 1962 owing to a serious illness; d. 5 Apr. 1985.
FRANKLIN, WILLIAM RICHARD, illegitimate son of William Franklin, and Giannina Tugeance (whom he subsequently married) (IGI); b. 6 Jul 1814; adm. 27 Jun 1827 (Stikeman's); adm. proctor, Court of Arches 1838, practised there to 1845.