Cecil Arthur Franklin (9 March 1887 – 28 January 1961), was chairman of the publishers

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from 1948 until his death in 1961. The son of the merchant banker

Arthur Ellis Franklin Arthur Ellis Franklin (18 April 1857 – 24 December 1938) was a British merchant banker and senior partner of Keyser & Co. Early life He was the son of the merchant banker Ellis Abraham Franklin (1822-1909), and came from a prominent Anglo-Je ...

and his wife, Caroline ( Jacob), Cecil Franklin was educated at the Jewish boarding school in Brighton run by Maurice Jacobs, joined the publishers

in 1906, became a director in 1912, and was chairman from 1948 until his death in 1961.

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