Gilbert Frankau
Gilbert Frankau (21 April 1884 – 4 November 1952) was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse (he was a
war poet of
World War I), including a number of
verse novels, and short stories.
He was born in London into a Jewish family but was baptised as an
Anglican at the age of 13. After education at
Eton College, he went into the family cigar business and became managing director on his twenty-first birthday, his father,
Arthur Frankau, having died in November 1904.
A few months before his death, at sixty-eight, from
lung cancer, he converted to
Roman Catholicism.
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