Claude Frankau

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 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 Isabella Frankau.

References

  1. ↑ Gilbert Frankau, Self-Portrait, Hutchinson 1940 - Ch. 3 p32
  2. ↑ Todd M. Endelman, "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837-1967", Jewish History Vol. 8, Nos 1-2, 1994 - p122
  3. ↑ Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd, 100 Years in the Service of Smokers 1847-1947, issued 1947

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