| AdminHistory | Sir Frank (Chalton) Francis (1901-1988) was Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1959 to 1968. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute; at Liverpool University, where he took a first in classics; and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he spent two years (1923-1925) engaged in research on early Greek philosophy, and of which he became an honorary fellow in 1959. In 1925-1926 Francis taught at Holyhead county school, but in the latter year entered the British Museum as an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books. He remained in the Museum for the rest of his career. |