FRANKS (or FRANCKE), ABRAHAM, son of John Franks, Preston, Lancs.; b.; adm.; KS 1698; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1702, adm. pens. 6 Jun 1702, aged 17, scholar 23 Apr 1703; BA 1705; MA 1709; DD 1728; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 1 Oct 1708, Major Fellow 15 Apr 1709, occasional Tutor; refused to sign the petition to the Bishop of Ely against Bentley; ordained deacon 23 May 1714, priest 11 Jun 1714 (both Ely); Rector of West Dean, Wilts., from 1714; Rector of Broughton, Hants., 1719/20-22; Prebendary of Salisbury from 3 Jun 1720; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II; m. 19 Sep 1718 Elizabeth Sorocold, Preston, Lancs.; d. 1 Sep 1733 (M. I. West Dean, Wilts. ).

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.

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.

Freeman, Edgar James Albert, brother of John Horace Freeman (qv); b. 31 Dec. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (KS); left July 1936; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1936, BA 1939; Durham LI 1940-5 (MaJ.), MC (Burma) July 1945, wounded; called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) Jan. 1947; vice-pres. VAT tribunals England and Wales 1972-, permanent chairman industrial tribunals 1975-, regional chairman Bury St Edmund's 1984; m. 15 May 1948 Shirley Lake, d. of William Henry Whatmough PhD, of Streatham; d. 29 Feb. 1992.

FREEMAN, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1590, adm. scholar 1591; BA 1594/5; MA 1598 (incorp. Oxford 16 Jul 1600).

FREEMAN, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1675.

FREEMAN, ROBERT MARRIOTT, eldest son of Robert Marriott Freeman MRCS LSA, Stony Stratford, Bucks., and Mary Anne Scriven (IGI); b. 6 Aug 1836; adm. 22 Jan 1849 (Rigaud's); QS 1851; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1855, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1855, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Jan 1856; BA 1860; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861 (both Rochester); Curate, Stevenage, Herts. 1860-3; Perpetual Curate of High Leigh, Cheshire 1863-7; Rector of Berkley, Somerset, from 1877; m. [by 1881]; d. 20 Apr 1892.

FREEMAN, SAMUEL GEORGE, brother of Robert Marriott Freeman (qv); b. 12 May 1838; adm. 19 Jun 1851 (James'); QS 1853; left 1856; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1858; MRCS 1863; Lic. Midwif. 1865; a medical practitioner in Highgate, Middlesex; d. 28 Jul 1871.

FREIND, JOHN, third son of William Freind (elected to Oxford 1656, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1691; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1694, matr. 7 Jul 1694, aged 17, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1694- Apr 1708, Faculty Student 19 Apr 1708 - void on marriage Dec 1709, Tutor 1700-4; BA 1698; MA 1701; MB 1703; MD (by diploma) 12 Jun 1707; delivered a course of lectures on chemistry at Ashmolean Museum 1704; Physician to Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough (qv) when commanding English forces in Spain 1705; travelling in Italy 1706-7; accompanied Duke of Ormonde to Flanders as his physician 1712; Physician-General to Army (Ireland) 1713; MRCP 1713, FRCP 1716, Gulstonian Lecturer 1718, Harveian Orator 1720; MP Launceston 1722 - 17 Mar 1723/4, 29 Mar 1725-7; implicated with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv) in plot for Jacobite restoration, and committed to Tower of London on charge of high treason Mar 1722/3, but released after three months’ imprisonment; Physician to Queen Caroline from 25 Oct 1727; FRS 20 Mar 1711/2; author, The History of Physick, 1725-6, and of other publications; gave £50 towards the building of College Dormitory; m. 3 Dec 1709 Anne, sister of William Morice (qv); d. 26 Jul 1728. Monument in South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

FREIND, JOHN, son of John Freind (KS 1691, qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1727; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1731 (by mandate from Queen Caroline, out of respect for his father’s memory), matr. 22 Jun 1731, Westminster Student 12 Feb 1732 - resigned 13 Jan 1737; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jun 1731; of Hitcham, Bucks.; m. Elizabeth, sister of Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (qv); buried Hitcham, Bucks., 3 Aug 1750.