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.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor.
