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[edit]
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[edit]
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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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The Official Gazette, 22 May 1928, p. 618
- ^ Queens' College 1948–1948
- ^ 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
- British diplomats
- Colonial Administrative Service officers
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- British terrorism victims
- Terrorism deaths in Jerusalem
- British people of Norwegian descent
- Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
- 1905 births
- 1946 deaths
- 20th century in Jerusalem
- British people in Mandatory Palestine