For other people with the same surname, see Frankau (surname).
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), and thus grandson of Adolph Frankau (1821–1860), a successful importer of smokers' requisites and founder of the pipe-manufacturing firm Adolph Frankau & Co.
His second wife was psychiatrist Dr Isabella Robertson.
References
- 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
- "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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