Henry Frankland

Henry Frankland (1690–1738) was an administrator of the British East India Company. Frankland served as President of Bengal in the eighteenth century. He was a younger son of Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Russell (through whom Frankland was a descendant of Oliver Cromwell) and was the father of Sir Charles Frankland, 4th Baronet ,and Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet.