Oliver Franks, Baron Franks

Oliver Franks (1990)

Oliver Franks, Baron Franks , OM , GCMG , KCB , CBE , DL (born February 16, 1905 Selly Oak , Birmingham , † October 15, 1992 in Oxford ) was a British civil servant.

Life

Oliver Franks attended Bristol Grammar School in Bristol and studied at Queen's College , Oxford . Immediately after graduating in 1927, he was appointed a Fellow at Queen's College. In 1935, after a guest semester at the University of Chicago, he was offered a chair there, which he refused. Instead he became professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1937 .

As part of his military service, he worked from 1939 to 1945 for the Ministry of Supply and was after the war as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry as the highest official before he returned in 1946 as Provost at Queen's College in Oxford. But in 1948 he left the university again to serve as ambassador of the United Kingdom to the USA . During his time in the United States, he chaired the NATO treaty preparation negotiations.

Franks left the position as ambassador in 1952 and worked from 1953 first as a director and from 1954 as chairman at Lloyds Bank . In 1962 he returned to Oxford University as Provost of Worcester College . In the same year he was the dignity of a life peer as Baron Franks of Headington awarded. Since 1960 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

After he retired in 1976, his work as chairman of the Falkland Island Review Committee from 1982 to 1983 with the final report known as Franks Report was of great public interest, since there the British government was denied responsibility for the outbreak of the Falklands War .

swell

• Obituary for Lord Franks in The Independent October 17, 1992 (accessed February 24, 2013)
• Oliver Frank's biography by Howard Sommerville (accessed February 24, 2013)
• University of Glasgow biography

literature

• Alex Danchev , Oliver Franks: Founding Father , Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, ISBN 978-0-19-821577-6
• Alex Danchev, Taking the Pledge: Oliver Franks and the Negotiation of the North Atlantic Treaty in: Diplomatic History , Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 199-220, April 1991

Web links

• The Reith Lectures 1954 Oliver Franks: Britain and the Tide of Affairs. Transcripts of all 6 lectures. Lecture 3 The Atlantic Bridge also available as audio.
• Transcript of an interview with Prof. David McLellan on June 27, 1964 provided by the Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Section
• Newspaper article about Oliver Franks, Baron Franks in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Conversation notes from Dean Acheson (US Secretary of State)

• Memorandum of Conversation with the Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Oliver Franks, Sir Roger Makins, Robert Scott, Dean Rusk, and Philip C. Jessup, December 4, 1950. Secretary of State File. Acheson Papers
• Memorandum of Conversation with Sir Oliver Franks, Mr. Kenneth Younger, Sir Roger Makins, Robert Scott, W. Averell Harriman, Dean Rusk, George W. Perkins, and Philip C. Jessup, December 5, 1950. Secretary of State File. Acheson Papers
• Memorandum of Conversation with Sir Oliver Franks, Sir Roger Makins, Kenneth Younger, Robert Scott, Dean Rusk, Averell Harriman, Philip Jessup, and John Hickerson, December 5, 1950. Secretary of State File. Acheson Papers
• Memorandum of Conversation with Sir Oliver Franks, Sir Roger Makins, Robert Scott, Dean Rusk, Paul Nitze, H. Freeman Matthews, and Philip C. Jessup, December 7, 1950. Secretary of State File. Acheson Papers
• Memorandum of Conversation with the Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Oliver Franks, George Perkins, and Willard Thorp, December 26, 1950. Secretary of State File. Acheson Papers
• The Pentagon Papers Gravel Edition Volume 1 Document 11, Memorandum of Conversation between Secretary of State Acheson and British Ambassador Oliver Franks, June 17, 1952, pp. 381-82

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. (PDF) British Academy, accessed May 29, 2020 .