title: Henry Frankland
text: # Henry Frankland
  
  Henry Frankland (1690–1738) was an administrator of the English 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.
  
  Political offices :
  
  | Preceded byJohn Deane | President of Bengal 30 January 1726 – 17 September 1728 | Succeeded byEdward Stephenson |
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