FRANKLYN, George Woodroffe. b. Bristol 1800; a merchant at Bristol; mayor of Bristol 1842–43; M.P. for Poole 1852–65. d. Lovel hill, Winkfield, Berks. 5 Nov. 1870.
FRANKS, Sir John (2 son of Thomas Franks of Ballymagooly, co. Cork 1729–87). b. Loher Cannon near Tralee, co. Kerry 1769; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; called to Irish bar 1792; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822; one of judges of supreme court, Calcutta 1825–1834 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 20 April 1825; resided at Roebuck near Dublin 1835 to death; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1840. d. St. Bridgets, Clonkeagh, co. Dublin 11 Jany. 1852.
FRANKS, Sir Thomas Harte (2 son of Wm. Franks of Carrig castle near Mallow, co. Cork). Ensign 10 foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 28 March 1845 to 20 July 1858; commanded 4th infantry division during Indian mutiny 1858; M.G. 20 July 1858; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 27 July 1858. d. Ibstone house, Tetsworth, Oxon. 5 Feb. 1862.
FRASER, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 7 April 1786; painter in Edin. to 1813, in London 1813–59; painted the details and still life in David Wilkie’s pictures for about 20 years; A.R.S.A. 1840; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 97 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. gallery 1810–59. d. Wood Green, Middlesex 15 Feb. 1865.
FRASER, Hastings. Ensign 74 foot 9 April 1788; lieut. col. 86 foot 18 April 1805 to 31 Aug. 1826; col. 83 foot 30 Sep. 1835, col. 61 foot 1 Sep. 1848 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 29 Sep. 1852 aged 81.
FRASER, Sir Hugh (son of Wm. Fraser, commissary of Inverness). Entered military service of H.E.I. Co. 1790; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 1 May 1834 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 7 April 1832 for commanding troops at assault of Copaul Droog. d. Braclangwell, co. Cromarty 6 Oct. 1851 aged 78.
FRASER, Right Rev. James (eld. son of James Fraser of Prestbury, Gloucs.) b. Prestbury 18 Aug. 1818; ed. at Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury; scholar of Lincoln coll. Ox. 1836; Ireland scholar 1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel coll. 1840–60, tutor 1842–47, sub-dean and librarian 1844; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1847–60; select preacher at Oxford 1851, 1861, 1871, 1877 and 1885; R. of Ufton Nervet, Berkshire 1860–70; preb. of Salisbury 1861–70; bishop of Manchester 18 Jany. 1870 to death, consecrated at Manchester cathedral 25 March 1870. d. Bishop’s Court, Higher Broughton, Manchester 22 Oct. 1885. bur. at Ufton Nervet. Memoir of James Fraser. By Thomas Hughes, Q.C. 1887, portrait; J. W. Diggle’s The Lancashire life of Bishop Fraser 1889, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xcv, 452–64 (1880), portrait; Church portrait gallery i, 47 (1880), portrait; Our Bishops and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold ii, 119–30 (1875); Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London 2 series (1874) 94–107, 393.
FRASER, James Baillie (eld. son of Edward Satchell Fraser of Reelick, Invernessshire). b. Reelick 11 June 1783; travelled in the Himalayas 1815, in Persia 1821–2; took charge of the Persian princes when they visited England 1835–6; author of Narrative of the Persian princes in London 2 vols. 1838; Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c. 2 vols. 1840; The dark falcon, a tale of the Attruck 4 vols. 1844 and 14 other books. d. Reelick 24 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 307–8 (1856).
FRASER, James Stuart (youngest son of Charles Fraser, col. Madras army, who d. 5 May 1795). b. Edinburgh 1 July 1783; lieut. 18 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800; commandant at Pondicherry 1816–28; col. 36 Madras N.I. 26 Sep. 1835 to death; resident at Hyderabad 31 Dec. 1839 to 1852; general 2 June 1860. d. Twickenham park, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1869. H. Fraser’s Memoir of J. S. Fraser (1885), portrait.
FRASER, Sir John (3 son of Wm. Mackenzie Fraser, M.D. of Balnairn). b. Bath 1792; ed. at Eton; aide-de-camp and Persian interpreter to commander-in-chief in India; retired from army 1827; sec. to lord high comr. of Ionian Islands to 1854; K.C.M.G. 1853. d. Bath 26 Dec. 1864.