1. Frank Soskice's father was the exiled Jewish-Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice; his mother Juliet Hueffner was the daughter of Catherine Madox Brown and Francis Hueffer, and so granddaughter of artist Ford Madox Brown, niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of Ford Madox Ford.
Frank Soskice studied law and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1926.
Frank Soskice served in the British Army with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during World War II.
Frank Soskice served first in east Africa and then, as political welfare executive, in Cairo.
Frank Soskice was, briefly, UK delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
Frank Soskice's constituency was abolished in the 1950 election, when he unsuccessfully fought Bebington, but he was returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in the Sheffield Neepsend constituency, where the sitting MP Harry Morris stood down to make way for Soskice.
In 1952, Frank Soskice joined the shadow cabinet, and his fortunes rose in 1955 with the election of his close ally Hugh Gaitskell as party leader, although he continued his legal practice as well.
When Labour returned to government in 1964 under Harold Wilson, Frank Soskice became Home Secretary.
In December 1965, Frank Soskice was relieved of his Home Office responsibilities and made Lord Privy Seal.
Frank Soskice had, though, ensured Government support for Sydney Silverman's Private Members Bill, passed on 28 October 1965, which suspended the death penalty in the United Kingdom for five years.
In 1966, Frank Soskice retired, and was created a life peer as "Baron Stow Hill", of Newport in the County of Monmouth on 7 June 1966.
Frank Soskice died in Hampstead on 1 January 1979, aged 76.