Claude Frankau Explained

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.

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)
• 2312172 . 41 . 3 . 318–320 . Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . In Memoriam: Sir Claude Frankau, C.B.E., D.S.O. 1967 .

Notes and References

1. [Gilbert Frankau]
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