Charles Franklyn
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Dr Charles Aubrey Hamilton Franklyn M.A. M.D. (25 August 1896 – 26 November 1982 (aged 86)) was a British medical doctor, and scholar of genealogy, heraldry, and academic dress. He was the son of Captain Aubrey Hamilton Franklin and his wife Ethel Mary Franklin (née Gray). It seems that Charles altered the spelling of his surname at some point between 1930 and 1933.
He traced his interest in academic dress to September 1910, when he became a pupil at Tonbridge School, and it retained considerable fascination for him for the rest of his life. Between 1949 and 1956 he designed complete systems of academic dress for the universities of Malaya, Southampton, Hull, the Australian National University, and the Chichester Theological College. At various times he contributed to the academic dress schemes of several other universities (in particular, the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham, and the New University of Ulster). He also served as Bedell of Convocation at the University of London.
His 1970 monograph on academic dress, the result of many years' research, is unfortunately rather difficult to find (primarily due to its limited print run, and the author's insistence that any unwanted copies be returned to him rather than sold on) but contains a large amount of valuable information on the subject. Its tone is in places somewhat opinionated, and other scholars have questioned a number of the assertions it contains; however it remains a standard text on the subject.
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- The Bearing of Coat Armour by Ladies (John Murray, 1923)
- Short genealogical & heraldic history of the families of Frankelyn of Kent and Franklyn of Antigua & Jamaica, B.W.I. (E.O. Beck, 1933)
- Academical Dress from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, including Lambeth Degrees (W. E. Baxter, Lewes, 1970) (printed privately, limited to 200 copies)
- Frank W. Haycraft, The Degrees and Hoods of the World's Universities and Colleges, 5th edition, revised and enlarged by Frederick R.S. Rogers, Charles A.H. Franklyn, George W. Shaw and Hugh Alexander Boyd (W.E. Baxter, Lewes, 1972) (printed privately)
- The Genealogy of Anne the Quene (Heraldry Today, 1977)
- The ancient family of Francklyn of Chart Sutton, Sutton Valance, Maidstone, Mereworth Castle, Kent (Fotodirect, 1977) (printed privately)
