Thomas Macdonald Kefford
Thomas Kefford was a British lawyer with whom Otto Frank had a lot of contact in 1937.
Thomas Kefford (1900-1967) was a London solicitor. He had a lot of contact with Otto Frank in 1937. During that year, Otto met Kefford around twenty times in London.[1] Appointments with Kefford in London also appear in Otto's diary for 19 July 1946 and 25 March 1955.[2] Otto Frank received a long letter from Kefford in 1945. He was looking for two people (Hirsch and Woudstra) who had been imprisoned in South Africa.[3]
For years Kefford had a legal practice at 31 Queen Victoria Street, Kensington, in the City of London. He acted as an authorised signatory or as a liquidator for all kinds of companies, and he worked with Herman Krolik and Albert M. Oppenheimer.[4] Kefford was also a liquidator of Applam Fruit Products.[5] This company was part of the Pomosin group.
Addresses: 24 Repton Road, Orpington (Bromley).[6]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_001: Agenda Otto Frank 1937.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_001 en OFA_003: Agenda's Otto Frank 1946 en 1955.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_072: Otto Frank aan Erich Elias, 1 september 1945.
- ^ London Gazette, 2 december 1932, 2 juni 1933, 1 februari 1938.
- ^ London Gazette, 8 november 1935.
- ^ Bromley Directory, 1937