Cecil Franklin

Cecil Arthur Franklin (9 March 1887 – 28 January 1961), 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 ( Jacob), 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.