Fremantle, Sir Thomas Francis
(1765–1819)
- J. K. Laughton
- , revised by Roger Morriss
Extract
Fremantle, Sir Thomas Francis (1765–1819), naval officer, third son of John Fremantle (d. 1784) of Aston Abbots in Buckinghamshire, and his wife, Frances, daughter of John Edwards of Bristol, was born on 20 November 1765. The politician Sir William Henry Fremantle was his younger brother. At the age of twelve he entered the ...