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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

FRANCE, ARTHUR, son of Rev. Thomas France, Precentor of Waterford, Ireland; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1753 (Morel's); KS 1753; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 - void 25 Jun 1760; ordained deacon (Limerick) 16 Aug 1767, priest (Cork) 25 Jan 1768; Curate, Rathcormac 1767; Vicar of Carryleamleary and Rahan, co. Cork, from 26 Jun 1772; d. 19 Nov 1793, in 54th year.

FRAIGNEAU, WILLIAM, son of John Fraigneau, First Yeoman of Confectionery, Royal Household, and Madeleine Liege; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1727; KS 1731; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1736, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1736, scholar 6 May 1737; 1st in “ordo” 1739/40; BA 1739/40; MA 1743; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1742, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1743, Tutor 1743-8; Regius Professor of Greek, Camb. Univ., 1744-50; ordained deacon Mar 1739, priest 23 Oct 1748 (both Winchester); Curate, Wotton, Surrey 1739; tutor to Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, with whom he travelled in Italy 1753-4; Vicar of Battersea, Surrey, from 18 Mar 1758; Rector of Beckenham, Kent, from 1765; m. 31 Mar 1758 Kitty Smith, Mortlake, Surrey; d. 12 Sep 1778. DNB.

FOXWELL, PHILIP; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1670; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1673, adm. pens. 29 May 1673, scholar 1674, matr. 1676; BA 1676/7; ordained priest (Norwich) Nov 1679; Rector of Tostock, Suffolk, from 1679; also Rector of Norton, Suffolk 1708-10; m. 17 Apr 1682 Catherine Brydon, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; buried Tostock, Suffolk 28 May 1736.

FOXTON, GEORGE LARDNER, son of Rev. George Foxton, Vicar of Coxwell Magna, Berks., and of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and Sarah Lardner (IGI); bapt. Great Coxwell, Berks. 24 Dec 1794 (IGI); adm. Lady Day 1807; KS (aged 14) 1809; left 1811; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1812; migrated to Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1816, matr. Mich. 1816; BA 1823; MA 1826; ordained deacon and priest 1818; Perpetual Curate of St. Peter’s Chapel, Blackburn, Lancs., 18 Mar 1829; Vicar of St. Peter, Worcester 20 Sep 1839-52; Vicar of Kempsey, Worcs., from 1852; m. 22 Aug 1822 Anne, dau. of William Hardman, Chaucher Hall, Lancs.; d. 12 Apr 1879.

FOX-STRANGWAYS, WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER, 4TH EARL OF ILCHESTER, eldest son of Henry Fox-Strangwways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester, and his second wife Juliana, dau. of Hon. William Digby (qv); b. 7 May 1795; adm. Lady Day 1807; KS (Capt. ) 1809; his “Diary of the Challenge of 1809” is printed in F. H. Forshall, Westminster School Past and Present, 1884, pp 575-84; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1813, matr. 1 Jun 1813, Westminster Student; BA 1816; MA 1820; attaché, British Embassies at St. Petersburg 1816-20, Constantinople 1820-2, Naples 1822-4, and The Hague 1824; Secretary of Legation, Florence 1825-8, Naples 1828-32; Secretary to Embassy, Vienna 1832; Under Secretary, Foreign Office Aug 1835- Mar 1840; Envoy Extraordinasry at Frankfurt Mar 1840- Jan 1849; succ. half-brother as 4th Earl of Ilchester 3 Jan 1858; m. 21 Jul 1857 Sophia Penelope, second dau. of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart. (qv); d. 10 Jan 1865.