Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Baronet

Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Baronet (September 1750 – 4 January 1831) was an English country landowner of Thirkleby, Yorkshire and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two sessions between 1774 and 1801.

[2] Frankland was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Thirsk together with his father at the 1774 general election but did not stand in 1780.

He and his wife Dorothy had five children of whom only his heir, Sir Robert Frankland, 7th Baronet, survived.

There is a memorial by sculptor John Flaxman R.A. to four of their children in All Saints Church,[5] Great Thirkleby.

Frankland wrote one of the first manuals on safe gun handling called Cautions to Young Sportsmen, first published in 1800.