Richard Penrose Franklin (28 November 1884 – 12 October 1942) was headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School from 1915 to 1936.
[2] In 1904 he enrolled with Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he achieved first-class honors in classical Tripos and graduated MA.
[5] As an educator, he placed high importance on the "Classics" (Latin and Greek), appointing such eminent scholars as Carl Kaeppel and Harold Hunt to teach those subjects, to the detriment of modern studies, some averred.
[1] A tall (well over 6 feet (180 cm), and nicknamed "Lofty") athletically built man,[6] Franklin coached high jump, long jump and hurdles to good effect,[1] some noted schoolboy athletes being Jack Park, Alf Watson and Donald F. McLardy (hurdles), and Frank Woodhouse (pole vault).
Major Reginald Norris Franklin DSO (c. 1882 – 6 July 1919) of the 2nd (Queensland) Light Horse, who saw service in Gallipoli and Egypt, was a brother.