Ellis Arthur Franklin OBE (28 March 1894 – 16 January 1964) was an English merchant banker.
He was the son of Arthur Ellis Franklin, a merchant banker and senior partner at Keyser & Co,[2] and his wife, Caroline Jacob.
His uncle was Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary (1916), and the first High Commissioner for the British Mandate of Palestine.
[citation needed] His siblings included Helen Bentwich (wife to Norman de Mattos Bentwich, Attorney General in the British Mandate of Palestine, active in trade union organisation, Women's Suffrage, and the London County Council on which she was a member) and Hugh Franklin, a militant suffragist and penal reform activist.
During World War II, Ellis A. Franklin helped Jewish refugees fleeing from the Continent, some being taken into the family home.