12-407: Ellis Franklin may refer to: Ellis Arthur Franklin (1894–1964), English merchant banker Ellis Abraham Franklin (1822–1909), his father, British merchant banker [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
24-633: A merchant banker. His sister was Rosalind Franklin , the scientist whose research led to discovery of the structure of DNA. His brother was writer, bibliographer, and antiquarian Colin Ellis Franklin . Franklin was a merchant banker, and a director of Keyser Ullman , the British merchant bank that failed in the 1973-74 banking crisis. Franklin had a long business partnership with the corporate raider James Goldsmith . As Goldsmith began winding down his US operations in 1987, Roland Franklin set up
36-463: A partner at Samuel Montagu and brother-in-law of Lord Swaythling . His uncle was Herbert Samuel , Home Secretary (1916), and the first High Commissioner for the British Mandate of Palestine . His siblings included Helen Bentwich (wife to Norman de Mattos Bentwich , Attorney General in the British Mandate of Palestine , active in trade union organisation, Women's Suffrage , and
48-486: A person notable in connection with Judaism is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Roland Franklin Sir Roland Arthur Ellis Franklin (5 May 1926 – 1 February 2024) was a British-born Antigua and Barbuda -based merchant banker. Roland Franklin was born in 1926 into an affluent and influential British Jewish family. His father, Ellis Arthur Franklin (1894–1964), was
60-498: Is betraying Israel.". He concluded that Iran "should be treated as an extremely dangerous pariah." Franklin was married to Lady Nina Franklin. They resided in Jumby Bay , a private island off the coast of Antigua . Their son Martin Ellis Franklin is the co-founder and chairman of Jarden . Franklin died on 1 February 2024, at the age of 97. This biographical article about a person notable in connection with Judaism
72-615: The London County Council on which she was a member) and Hugh Franklin , a militant suffragist and penal reform activist. Ellis Franklin was a banker at Keyser & Co , where his father was senior partner. Franklin became a teacher of a class in Electricity at The Working Men's College in 1919, having been introduced to the College by his uncle, the banker Lionel Jacob. By 1922 he had become Vice Principal of
84-615: The College and was instrumental in attracting donations to the College from the City , and new College Corporation members from the Home Office , The Bar , and the City. Franklin married Muriel Frances Waley (1894–1976). They resided in London. They had five children. David (1919–1986) was the eldest. Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958), was the influential biophysicist, being involved in
96-666: The Pembridge group together with his son Martin E. Franklin . Together they undertook a series of transactions between 1987 and 1989, the largest of which was the $ 1.3 billion hostile takeover of the Dickinson Robinson Group (DRG). Franklin appointed his son as the chief executive officer of DRG, with the goal of breaking up the conglomerate via a series of asset sales. Franklin retired from active business in 1991, leaving Martin Franklin and Ian Ashken to oversee
108-490: The discovery of DNA among many areas of work. Colin Ellis Franklin (1923–2020) was a writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller. Sir Roland Franklin (1926-2024) was a merchant banker. Jenifer (born 1929) was their youngest child. During World War II , Ellis A. Franklin helped Jewish refugees fleeing from the Continent, some being taken into the family home. This biographical article about
120-722: The final DRG asset sales. In 1992 they returned to the US with the intention of using their experience at DRG to build, rather than break up companies. In June 2015, Franklin published an opinion piece in j. , a Northern California Jewish newspaper, arguing that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action , also known as the Iran nuclear deal, would be "the first step on the path to World War III." He went on to compare U.S. President Barack Obama to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain prior to World War II, suggesting, "Obama
132-531: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellis_Franklin&oldid=1233935561 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ellis Arthur Franklin Ellis Arthur Franklin OBE (28 March 1894 – 16 January 1964)
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#1732801030069144-534: Was an English merchant banker . Franklin was born in Kensington , London into an affluent Anglo-Jewish family. He was the son of Arthur Ellis Franklin , a merchant banker and senior partner at Keyser & Co , and his wife, Caroline Jacob. The family was related to both parts of the Montagu-Samuel banking-and-politics 'Cousinhood'. Franklin's grandfather was Ellis Abraham Franklin (1822–1909),
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