Frankland of Aldwarke
Source:Visitation of Yorkshire, Sir.William Dugdale, A.D. 1665 and 1666
Richard Frankland, born at Rathmell, close to Giggleswick in 1630. He was an energetic non-conformist who founded the Rathmel Academy.
When the Non-conformists were excluded from Universities, they founded academies, where university learning was taught. The first of these academies in the north of England was established by Richard Frankland who had been ejected from Bishop Auckland , Durham. He had first had pupils at Rathmel, to where he retired; he moved to Kendal in 1674, in 1683 Calton, before coming to Attercliffe in 1686. After three years at Attercliffe, he returned to Rathmel where he stayed untill his death in 1698. (The state of the times compelled Frankland to move with his academy from place to place)
Soon after Mr. Franklands removal, the Rev. Timothy Jollie, minister of Sheffield dissenters, established a similar academy in a hall at Attercliffe upon a plan similar to Frankland's, whose pupil he had been. The hall at Attercliffe was for several generations the residence of the Spencer family.
Richard Frankland, married Anne, daughter of Dr. Thomas Young, Archbishop of York. He made his will 1st December, 1585, and mentioned two nephews of the name of Richard. One was son of his brother Thomas, the other son of his brother William Frankland
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