HOOPER, FRANKLIN HENRY (1862— ), editor emeritus of The Encyclopcedia Britannica, was born at Worcester, Mass., January 28, 1862, a brother of Horace Everett Hooper (q.v.) . He graduated from Harvard in He was associated with The Century Co. from 1883 to 1896, being one of the editors of The Century Dictionary. He was literary adviser and manager for James Clarke & Company, publishers, 1897-1899, and became an editor of The Encyclopcedia Britannica in 1899, having been connected with five different editions of The Britannica. He was associate editor of the Tenth Edition, 1902, managing editor of the Eleventh Edition, 191o, American editor of the Twelfth, 1922, Thirteenth Edition, 1926, and Fourteenth Edition, 1929. In 1932 Mr. Hooper became editor-in-chief. He edited and planned These Eventful Years (1924), and was also editor of Britannica Junior and the 1938 Britannica Book of the Year. He retired in April 1938.