[6] Her parents, Rev Francis Dent Vaisey and Dorothy May Whatmore, had married on 16 January 1917 at St Martin in the Fields.

[9] Dorothy's brother, Walter Roland Tracy Whatmore, who attended the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, married in Beckenham on 19 August 1933.

[13][14][15] Ann's sister Barbara married Ian Gurney Macintyre in 1945,[16] then Arthur Mudge Cardale, of Stratton, Cornwall on 7 December at St Michael's Church, Chester Square by the Bishop of Leicester.

[30] Franklin's work on child abuse and neglect was most likely encouraged by his wife, who was a social worker and magistrate.

[32] A year later, as a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Franklin was the Lawrence scholar and a gold medallist.

In their plans to form a student club of medical history, Franklin had wished to name it after his hero, Sir Clifford Allbutt.

[1] Between 1934 and 1935, Franklin was Temple Cross research fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, returning to St Bartholomew's as assistant physician in the children's department.

[23] Franklin became one of the UK's earliest neonatologists, assisting under Alan Moncrieff at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.

During the Second World War, he worked at Hill End and St Alban's Hospitals as a paediatrician for Sector 3 of the Emergency Medical Service.

Franklin held his teaching sessions in the hospital ward playrooms and was described in Munk's Roll as having an "intuitive understanding of the problems and distress, both emotional and practical, suffered by the family of a sick – perhaps mortally – or handicapped child".

[23] Franklin was one of the first to recognise that child abuse was much more common and serious in the United Kingdom than the public realised and that the cooperation between the different professions involved was inadequate.

[31] Franklin argued that perpetrators of child abuse could only be stopped if, like sufferers from leprosy and venereal disease in the past, society allowed them to come into the open.

[31] His approach was instrumental in bringing together doctors, social workers and lawyers to coordinate investigations into child abuse.