Deceased
from Winfield, AL
1851
Died:1935
In 1923 he won the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. One of the other observers who used the Brockhurst Observatory with Franks was a teenage Patrick Moore ( fourteen years old at Franks's death ).
In 1910 he was hired by F. J. Hanbury ( of the Allan and Hanbury firm ) to work as an observer at Hanbury's private Brockhurst Observatory at East Grinstead in Sussex.