Claude Frankau
Sir Claude Howard Stanley Frankau CBE DSO FRCS (11 February 1883 – 29 June 1967) was a distinguished British surgeon long associated with St George’s Hospital. In 1937 he was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland[1]
Claude Frankau was the younger son of London barrister Frederick Joseph "Fritz" Frankau (1855–1933),[2] and thus grandson of Adolph Frankau (1821–1860), a successful importer of smokers' requisites and founder of the pipe-manufacturing firm Adolph Frankau & Co.[3][4] One of Adolph's nephews was the businessman Arthur Frankau whose wife Julia Frankau and son Gilbert Frankau became well-known novelists.
Like his father and brother, Claude attended Rugby School. 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 Emergency Medical Service for London and the Home Counties and he was knighted 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.
References
[edit]- ^ "Sir Claude Frankau, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.S., F.R.C.S.". British Medical Journal. 3 (5557): 116–116. 8 July 1967.
- ^ 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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