Sir Roland Arthur Ellis Franklin (5 May 1926 – 1 February 2024) was a British-born Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker.
His sister was Rosalind Franklin, the scientist whose research led to discovery of the structure of DNA.
Together they undertook a series of transactions between 1987 and 1989, the largest of which was the $1.3 billion hostile takeover of the Dickinson Robinson Group (DRG).
Franklin appointed his son as the chief executive officer of DRG, with the goal of breaking up the conglomerate via a series of asset sales.
[5] In June 2015, Franklin published an opinion piece in j., a Northern California Jewish newspaper, arguing that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, would be "the first step on the path to World War III.