Ralph Freke

Sir Ralph Freke, 1st Baronet (c. 1675 – 1717) of West Bilney, Norfolk, and Rathbarry (afterwards Castle Freke), County Cork, was a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain and a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons.

Percy Freke purchased the estate of West Bilney in Norfolk, was High Sheriff of County Cork in 1694, and was the Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty in 1692–93 and 1695–99, and the member for Baltimore from 1703 until his death in May 1707.

Like other aristocratic women of the time, she cultivated a collection of medical and culinary recipes.

From these medical recipes, she would make medicine to treat herself, her son, and her husband in times of sickness.

After his death in 1717, the baronetcy was inherited by his eldest son, Percy; his widow remarried James King, 4th Baron Kingston.