Oliver Franks, Baron Franks
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Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks OM GCMG KCB CBE (16 February 1905–15 October 1992) was an English public servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the post-war world'.
Educated at Bristol Grammar School, a private school in Bristol, Oliver Franks was an Oxford academic, and Provost of Worcester College. He was a moral philosopher by training, serving as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow between 1936-1946. Franks was involved in Britain's recovery after the Second World War. The knighted, Sir Oliver was the British Ambassador to the United States of America from 1948 to 1952. As ambassador, he strengthened the special relationship between the two countries. He was given a life peerage on 10 May 1962 as Baron Franks, of Headington in the County of Oxford.
Lord Franks was regularly called upon by the government of the day to chair important inquiries, and he is best known for his report in the aftermath of the Falklands War which ultimately exonerated Margaret Thatcher and her government from charges of having failed to heed warning signals of an Argentine invasion.
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- Danchev, Alex, 2004, 'Franks, Oliver Shewell, Baron Franks (1905-1992)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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