Cecil Franklin

Cecil Arthur Franklin, was chairman of the publishers Routledge from 1948 until his death in 1961.
The son of the merchant banker Arthur Ellis Franklin and his wife, Caroline, Cecil Franklin was educated at the Jewish boarding school in Brighton run by Maurice Jacobs, joined the publishers Routledge in 1906, became a director in 1912, and was chairman from 1948 until his death in 1961.