William Franks (died 1790)

William Franks, n.d.[1]
Mary Pepys, n.d.
The Percy Chapel, Charlotte Street, in 1857. Source: Guildhall, City of London.

William Franks (died 1790) was an early English property developer who was instrumental in the development of Percy Street, Rathbone Street and Charlotte Street in central London in the area now known as Fitzrovia. He married a member of the Pepys family and built the Percy Chapel in Charlotte Street.

  1. ^ Gaussen, Alice C.C., (Ed.) (1904) A later Pepys: The correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys &c. Vol. I. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. p. 224.