Mansel Franklen Collection of Glamorgan Historical Papers,

Deeds and documents, [1600]-[1810], mainly relating to the counties of Northampton, Hertford and Surrey, together with an account book, 1786-1793, relating to the Franklen estate in South Wales.

Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen (1840-1928), antiquary, was born in Swansea. He graduated from Oxford in 1861, and was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1865. In 1878, he became Clerk of the Peace in Glamorgan, and in 1889, Clerk to the Glamorgan County Council. He amassed a collection of papers relating to the history of Glamorgan, including material collected by the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne, G. T. Clark and William Davies.

Arranged at NLW into two series.

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Donated to the National Library of Wales by Lady Mansel Franklen, St. Hilary, Cowbridge, 1928-1929.

Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen (1840-1928), antiquary, was born in Swansea. He graduated from Oxford in 1861, and was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1865. In 1878, he became Clerk of the Peace in Glamorgan, and in 1889, Clerk to the Glamorgan County Council. He amassed a collection of papers relating to the history of Glamorgan, including material collected by the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne, G. T. Clark and William Davies.

Title supplied from name of collector.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales.

February 2003.

Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW Project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 2 (1951); Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959); Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941-1970 (London, 2001); Stephens, Meic, Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (Oxford, 1986).

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Mansel Franklen acquired the papers of G. T. Clark and the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne, both of whom had collected a large number of documents relating to the history of Glamorgan.

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