Sir Michael David Milroy Franklin, KCB, CMG (24 August 1927 – 7 June 2019) was an English civil servant. Educated at

Taunton School Taunton School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school, now co-educational, in the county town of Taunton in Somerset in South West England. It serves boarding and day-school pupils from the ages of 13 to 18. The current headmaster i ...

and

Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate stud ...

, Franklin entered the civil service in 1950; after four years in the

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's Directorate-General for Agriculture, he was head of the European Secretariat at the

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from 1977 to 1981,

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of the

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from 1982 to 1983, and Permanent Secretary of the

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from 1983 to 1987."Franklin, Sir Michael (David Milroy)"
''Who Was Who'' (online ed.,

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, 2021). Retrieved 11 August 2021.

External links

The Papers of Sir Michael Franklin
held at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Franklin, Michael 1927 births 2019 deaths English civil servants People educated at Taunton School Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George