Robert Paus Platt

Robert Paus Platt OBE (born 1905 in England, died 22 July 1946 in Jerusalem) was a British diplomat. He served as an under-secretary in the mandatory government of the British Mandate of Palestine and was among the 91 victims of the King David Hotel bombing.

Career

Platt studied at Queens' College, Cambridge and joined the Colonial Administrative Service. He was appointed Assistant Resident Commissioner in Mombasa in 1928.[1] He later became under-secretary in the mandatory government of the British Mandate of Palestine and was killed in the King David Hotel bombing.[2][3]

Background

Platt was the son of Robert M. Platt and Ellen Sophie Paus. His maternal grandfather Christopher Paus, who was a first cousin of Henrik Ibsen, was a Norwegian-born businessman who moved to England. His other three grandparents were English. He was a nephew of the British Consul in Oslo, Christopher Lintrup Paus.

He was married to Joan Rosa Lumley, a daughter of James Maddy Lumley, a British colonial administrator in Africa who was Commissioner of Police in Kenya.

Honours

References
  1. The Official Gazette, 22 May 1928, p. 618
  2. Queens' College 1948–1948
  3. Alice M. Boase, Mary Hannah, Margaret Knowlden, When the sun never set: a family's life in the British Empire, p. 149, Radcliffe Press, 2005
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