Background
Philip Frank was the second son of Ernest Frank of Pendleton, near Manchester.
commandant lawyer High Sheriff
Philip Frank was the second son of Ernest Frank of Pendleton, near Manchester.
He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1905. During the 1914-1918 War he served with the Shropshire Yeomanry and the Royal Engineers Signals, serving as a staff officer and reaching the rank of Major. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1937, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, and during the Second War he served as Commandant of the Norfolk Special Constabulary.
He was also sometime Chairman and Trustee of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
He resided at The Dower House, East Carleton, Norfolk. In Who"s Who, he listed his recreations as "Hunting, shooting, ski-ing, stalking, fishing".
A portrait by Elliott and Fry is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.