FRANKLEN
,
Sir
THOMAS MANSEL
(
1840
-
1928
),
public servant
;
b. in
1840
at
Swansea
, son of
Richard
Franklen
,
J.P.
,
D.L.
, of
Clemenstone
, and his wife,
Isabella
(
Talbot
)
. From
Harrow
he went up to
Oxford
(
Exeter
and afterwards
Merton
), graduating in
1861
; he was
called to the Bar
from
Lincoln's Inn
in
1865
, and practised on the
South Wales circuit
. In
1878
he became
clerk of the peace
in
Glamorgan
, and in
1889
clerk
of
Glamorgan county council
. He d., still in office,
29 Sept. 1928
. He had m., in
1872
,
Florence
Allen
; had received an
honorary LL.D.
from the
University of Wales
in
1921
, and had been
knighted
in the
same year. He was a member of the
Cambrian Archaeological Association
, and was a zealous
photographer
, as befitted a relation of
W. H. Fox
Talbot
(see
Talbot
of
Margam
family
); his photographs of early Celtic crosses were extensively used by
J. Romilly
Allen
(q.v.)
, and a collection of his photographs of historic buildings is preserved in the
National Museum of Wales
.
Bibliography:
-
Archaeologia Cambrensis
,
1928
;
-
Who was who?
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
