He was the son and heir of Percy Freke, of Rathbarry, by Elizabeth, the daughter of Ralph Freke of Hannington, Wiltshire. Percy Freke was the son of Arthur Freke and his wife Dorothy, and was named after his maternal grandfather, Sir Percy Smith of Youghal, County Cork.
He was High Sheriff of County Cork in 1709, and created a baronet on 4 June 1713. The Freke estate was eventually inherited by Ralph Freke"s only daughter Grace, who married The Honorary John Evans, a younger son of George Evans, 1st Baron Carbery.
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 1692-1693 and 1695-1699, and the member for Baltimore from 1703 until his death in May 1707. Ralph Freke was born after 1673, and was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty over three parliaments from 1703 until his death in 1717.
