Lieutenant-Colonel Franklin
(1823-1895)
27 October 1861

Volume 5, page 183, sitting number 6227.

[Identified as 'Lieut. Col. Franklin' in the Silvy daybooks, this is probably Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Trigance Franklin of the Royal Artillery.]

Born on 20 March 1823, he was baptised, aged 4, on 14 March 1828 at St Marylebone, London. His father was Sir William Franklin, later Inspector General of the Army Medical Department. 

On 10 November 1852 at Liverpool he married Lucy Haywood, daughter of merchant Francis Haywood. Their marriage produced at least four children.

The family appear on the 1871 census living at Sillins House, Feckenham, Worcestershire. In 1881 and 1891 they were living at Wigmore Hall, Wigmore, Herefordshire.

Major-General Charles Trigance Franklin, C.B., died, aged 73, on 9 April 1895 at Conderton Manor, Worcestershire. He left an estate valued at £10,738.

According to a short obituary in the Gloucester Citizen (11 April 1895), 'Major-General Charles Trigance Franklin, R.A., C.B., died on the 9th inst. at his residence, Conderton Manor, Tewkesbury. He was a son of the late Sir William Franklin, K.C.H., and was born in 1822 [sic]. He entered the army in 1842, and served in the Eastern campaign of 1854, including the battle of the Alma and the siege of Sebastopol (medal with two clasps, C.B., and fifth-class of the Medjidie, and Turkish medal). He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1873, and retired from the Army in 1875. He married a daughter of Mr Francis Haywood, of Sillins, Bromsgrove.'