FRANKLAND, Thomas II (c.1685-1747), of Thirkleby, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1685, 1st s. of (Sir) Thomas Frankland I* (2nd Bt.). educ. Jesus, Camb. 1700; travelled abroad (Italy) 1704–5; Padua Univ., 1705. m. (1) 5 June 1715, Dinah (d. 1741), da. and h. of Francis Topham of Agglethorpe, Yorks., 2da.; (2) 9 July 1741, Sarah Moseley of Worcs., 1s. d.v.p. suc. fa. as 3rd Bt. 30 Oct. 1726. R. W. Gallwey, Ped. Frankland of Thirkleby, Yorks.; HMC Astley, 170; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ed. Clay, ii. 245; Swift Stella ed. Davis, 131; Her. and Gen. vii. 260–2.

Offices Held

Clerk of deliveries in Ordnance and sec. to muster-master-gen. 1715–22; commr. revenue [I] 1724–8; ld. of Trade 1728–30; ld. of Admiralty 1730–42. Cal. Treas. Bks. xxix. 433; M. Noble, Mems. House of Cromwell, ii. 422–3; Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, ed. Lascelles, i(2), 134; Add. 36129, f. 200; 36130, f. 91; Swift Stella, 131.

Parlimentarian

FRANKLAND, Thomas (c.1683-1747), of Thirkleby Park, nr. Thirsk, Yorks.

Main residence: Thirkleby, Yorks.

Author

E.C.

C.I.M.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion