Frankland W. L. Miles Jr, of Duxbury, passed away on May 26th at the age of 84 at the Coyne Healthcare in Rockland. He is survived by his beloved wife Priscilla (Stahl) of Duxbury. Brother of the late John G. Miles, Esq. Frankland graduated from Roxbury Latin High School, Mass Maritime Academy where he received his B.S in Marine Transportation, Harvard where he received his A.B and Boston University Law School where he received his J.D. Frankland served in the U.S Coast Guard during WWII as the 3rd, 2nd and acting Chief Mate on American Merchant Ships in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Theatres. He was an attorney and partner with his brother at Miles and Miles, Esquire and practiced in Boston, Plymouth and Duxbury. He specialized in Admiralty, Jones Act, Tort, Probate, Estate Planning, Real Estate, Workmen’s Compensation, Domestic Relations, Criminal Law and he practiced before the U.S Coast Guard Administrative Law Court defending Merchant Mariners whose licenses are in jeopardy. Frankland was the past president of the Mass. Maritime Academy and was a member of the Mass. Maritime Alumni Ass, the Board of Visitors, Mass. Maritime Academy Treasurer and received the Alumnus of the Year in 1967. He was also past president of the Old Colony Harvard Club, a member of the Harvard Club of Boston, Class Committee for the class of 1949 and the Pi Eta Speakers Club and a member of the Boston University Law School Alumni Ass. Mr. Miles was a Former Legislative Assistant to Minority Leader, Charles Gibbons of the Mass. House of Representatives, Former Special Assistant Attorney General to Attorney General Edward Brooke, Chairman of the Mass. State College Building Authority for 13 years, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Mass. Maritime Academy, Corporator for Whitman Savings Bank, Trustee at Jordan Hospital, Trustee at E. Joseph Evans Charitable Trust and a Trustee at the Brimmer & May School. Frankland was also a former member of the Local 11, International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, A.F. of L. C.I.O and a member of the Boston Area Counsel to International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots. He was a former moderator at the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Duxbury, a former moderator for the Pilgrim Association of Congregational Christian Churches which included 52 churches in Southeastern Mass and a counsel at the Merrimac Mission in Boston. Frankland was a member of the Mass., Boston, Plymouth County, Plymouth District Bar Associations, the Mass. Conveyancers Ass. And Mass. Trial Lawyers Ass, and he was an approved attorney for National Shawmut Bank, Plymouth Savings Bank, Home Savings Bank, Merchants Co-operative Bank and Cape Cod Bank & Trust Company and was also a Land Court Examiner. He was also a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, an honorary member of the Boston Marine Society, Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Duxbury Community Men’s Club which he was also past president of, the Loyalty Lodge A.F & A.M, St. Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter, Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, Alleppo Temple, Shrine of North America, Duxbury Historical Society, Steamboat Historical Society of America, the National Geographic Society and the U.S Naval Institute. He enjoyed traveling extensively throughout the world and the U.S and Canada, photography, music, theater, art museums and college athletics, particularly the Mass. Maritime Academy and Harvard football games. A memorial service will be held on Saturday June 13th at 1 PM at the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Duxbury.