Sir Claude Howard Stanley Frankau CBE DSO FRCS (11 February 1883 – 29 June 1967) was a British surgeon. He was awarded the DSO in 1918, CBE in 1919 and knighted in 1945.
Claude Frankau was the younger son of London barrister F. J. "Fritz" Frankau (1855–1933),[1] and thus grandson of Adolph Frankau (1821–1860), a successful importer of smokers' requisites and founder of the pipe-manufacturing firm Adolph Frankau & Co.[2][3]
His second wife was psychiatrist Dr Isabella Robertson.
References
edit- ^ Gilbert Frankau, Self-Portrait, Hutchinson 1940 - Ch. 3 p32
- ^ Todd M. Endelman, "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837–1967", Jewish History Vol. 8, Nos 1–2, 1994 - p122
- ^ Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd, 100 Years in the Service of Smokers 1847-1947, issued 1947
External links
edit- "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)
- "In Memoriam: Sir Claude Frankau, C.B.E., D.S.O". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 41 (3): 318–320. 1967. PMC 2312172.
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