Cecil Simon Franks (1 July 1935 – 2 February 2014) was a British solicitor and politician from Manchester.
The next year he was elected to Salford council, sitting alongside his father; but in 1964 he was dropped as a candidate, alleging a plot against him by Left-wing members of the engineering union.
Barrow-in-Furness, the constituency's biggest town, is largely dependent on its Royal Navy contracts, and in particular, nuclear submarines (at VSEL, the area's major employer, even today) which played a leading part in the Falklands conflict.
However, the electorate were not convinced enough that the loss of employment was sufficient to merit a vote for another Conservative MP.
After losing his seat in Parliament, he did not stand for election again, and from 1995, involved himself working with various charities in opposing the processing of Amazon rainforest wood in China.