Frank Foley
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Francis Edward Foley CMG |
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| Born |
Francis Edward Foley 24 November 1884 Highbridge, Somerset, England |
| Died | 8 May 1958 (aged 73) Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Employer | Government |
| Spouse(s) | Katharine Eva (m. 1921; d. 1979) |
Major Francis Edward Foley CMG (24 November 1884, Highbridge, Somerset – 8 May 1958, Stourbridge) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer. As a passport control officer for the British embassy in Berlin, Foley "bent the rules" and helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War, officially recognized as a British Hero of the Holocaust.
He was the third son of Isabella and Andrew Wood Foley, a Tiverton-born railway worker, whose family may have originated from Roscommon in Ireland in the early 1800s. After attending local schools in Somerset, Foley won a scholarship to Stonyhurst College, Lancashire where he was educated by the Jesuits. He then went to a Catholic seminary in France to train as a priest but transferred to the Université de France in Poitiers to study Classics. While there he reconsidered his vocation for the priesthood and decided instead to pursue an academic career. He travelled extensively in Europe, becoming fluent in both French and German.
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