Sir Claude Howard Stanley Frankau

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DSO

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(11 February 1883 – 29 June 1967) was a distinguished British

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long associated with

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. In 1937 he was President of the

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Claude Frankau was the younger son of London

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Frederick Joseph "Fritz" Frankau (1855–1933), and thus grandson of Adolph Frankau (1821–1860), a successful importer of smokers' requisites and founder of the

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-manufacturing firm Adolph Frankau & Co.Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd, ''100 Years in the Service of Smokers 1847-1947'', issued 1947 One of Adolph's nephews was the businessman Arthur Frankau whose wife

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and son

Gilbert Frankau Captain Gilbert Frankau (21 April 1884 – 4 November 1952) was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse (he was a war poet of World War I), including a number of verse novels, and short stories. He was born in London into a Je ...

became well-known novelists. Like his father and brother, Claude attended

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. His medical training was at St George’s Hospital Medical School. In the First World War Frankau served in France and was awarded the DSO in 1918, CBE in 1919. In the Second World War he was director of the

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for London and the Home Counties and he was

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in 1945. Frankau was married twice. In 1914 he married Edith Lorne MacDougall by whom he had two sons and a daughter. Edith died in 1934. His second wife was psychiatrist Dr Isabella Robertson.

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External links

"FRANKAU, Sir Claude (Howard Stanley)" in ''Who Was Who''
A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 (accessed 7 June 2011) (Subscription required) * 1883 births 1967 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Knights Bachelor 20th-century British surgeons People educated at Rugby School {{UK-med-bio-stub