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An authentic narrative of the late extraordinary proceedings at Cambridge against the W[estminste]r Club
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1751 (Publication)
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4to, 1 volume
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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.
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