Sir Richard Franklyn, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Franklyn, 1st Baronet (1630–1685) of Moor Park, Hertfordshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1679.

He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 23 June 1648 and matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 19 March 1649.

In May 1652 he purchased the Moor Park estate, selling the house to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond in 1664 and the Manor of the More to Sir John Bucknall in 1672.

[1] Franklyn died at St Martin's in the Fields at the age of 55 and was buried at Willesden on 16 September 1685.

[1] Franklyn married firstly in or before 1655 Elizabeth Cheke, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheek of Pirgo, Essex.