Constituency : Leicester 1906-10
Just after being re-elected, the veteran Lib-Lab MP Henry Broadhurst decided to retire. Franklin had an easy win in the by-election.
Franklin came from a successful Bolton cotton spinning company. His father was MP for Bolton in the 1880s. He stood for Westhoughton in 1900 and Stretford in 1901.
Franklin founded the Tribune newspaper in 1906 but it had to close in 1908. It was tjought to have cost him £400,000. He made little contribution in Parliament. He was a supporter of female suffrage.
Franklin stood down in January 1910.
Franklin commanded a battalion in World War One.
He died of cancer in 1941 aged 68.
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