Sir Claude Howard Stanley Frankau

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

DSO

FRCS Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom. It is bestowed on an intercollegiate basis by the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons (the Royal C ...

(11 February 1883 – 29 June 1967) was a British

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. He was awarded the DSO in 1918, CBE in 1919 and

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in 1945. Claude Frankau was the younger son of London

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F. J. "Fritz" Frankau (1855–1933), and thus grandson of Adolph Frankau (1821–1860), a successful importer of smokers' requisites and founder of the

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-manufacturing firm Adolph Frankau & Co.Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd, ''100 Years in the Service of Smokers 1847-1947'', issued 1947 His second wife was psychiatrist Dr Isabella Robertson.

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"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) * 1883 births 1967 deaths British surgeons Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Knights Bachelor 20th-century surgeons {{UK-med-bio-stub