Mark Frank (theologian)

Mark Frank or Franck (1613–1664) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Life

He was baptised at Little Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, and was admitted pensioner of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 4 July 1627. He was elected to a scholarship in 1630, and to a fellowship 8 October 1634, having become M.A. the same year. In 1641 he became B.D., and was chosen junior treasurer of his college, and senior treasurer in 1642.^[1]

He had attracted the favourable notice of Charles I by a sermon he preached at Paul's Cross before the lord mayor and aldermen in 1641 on Jeremiah xxxv. 18-19, which the king commanded to be printed. In this sermon he propounds the Rechabites as an example of obedience; 'It is a usual thing nowadays,' he says, 'to direct our governours what to do, what to read, what to command; then, forsooth, we will obey them.' In 1644 he was ejected as a malignant by the parliamentary visitors, on his refusal to take the Solemn League and Covenant.

At the Restoration Frank was re-established in his fellowship 10 August 1660, and rewarded by ecclesiastical promotions. He was made D.D. by royal mandate in 1661, and was chosen master of his college 23 August 1662, in succession to Benjamin Lany. Archbishop William Juxon appointed him one of his chaplains, and he held the office of domestic chaplain and ex officio licenser of theological works to Juxon's successor, Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, by whom he was presented to the archdeaconry of St. Albans, and to the treasurership of St. Paul's Cathedral, 19 December 1660. He was also presented to the rectory of Barley, Hertfordshire, 2 February 1664, by Matthew Wren. He died the following year, at the age of fifty-one, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, near the entrance of the north door.

Works

Course of Sermons for all the Sundays and Festivals throughout the Year (1672) was published after his death. It was republished, in two volumes, in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology.

Notes

↑ "Franck, Mark (FRNK627M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Frank, Mark". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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Biographical Notice

Academic offices
Preceded by Benjamin Lany	Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1662–1664	Succeeded by Robert Mapletoft

Archdeacons of St Albans

Medieval	John Blebury John Hatfield William Alnwick/Alnewyke John Peyton John Hatfield Stephen London William Albon William of Wallingford Nicholas Boston John Rothebury John Thornton Thomas Newland/Newlonde Richard Runham John Stonewell/Stonywell John Killingworth John Albon John Mainard/Maynard Richard Runham Thomas Marshall Thomas Kingsbury/Kyngesbury Egidius Ferrers Thomas Kingsbury/Kyngesbury William East/Este

Early modern	William East/Este James Dugdale David Kempe Giles Lawrence William Hutchinson Thomas Raymond Thomas Westfield Mark Frank Christopher Shute William Bell Edward Carter John Cole Lionel Gatford Philip Stubbs Fifield Allen John Cole James Ibbetson Samuel Horsley Joseph Pott Robert Hodgson John Watson William Hale Charles Burney Anthony Grant

Late modern	Walter Lawrance Kenneth Gibbs Arthur Parnell Aylmer Skelton Thomas Wood Charles Cockbill Basil Snell Peter Mumford David Farmbrough Edward Norfolk Philip Davies Richard Cheetham Helen Cunliffe Jonathan Smith

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