Gilbert Frankau
Popular british novelist
Died when: 68 years 197 days (822 months)Star Sign: Taurus
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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