Background
He was born in Thornham, Royton, Lancashire, the son of Ernest Platt, a velvet cutter and later chairman of United Velvet Cutters, Limited. Harry developed a tuberculous knee as a child and his early education was at home.
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Harry Harry Platt
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Education
University of Manchester.
Career
He entered the Victoria University of Manchester to study medicine and qualified in 1909 from both Victoria and London Universities. After resident and registrar appointments he demonstrated anatomy at Manchester Royal Infirmary. His orthopaedic training was mainly at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, and in Boston, United States of America. On his return to England in 1914 he was appointed surgeon at Ancoats Hospital but on the outbreak of World War I he was appointed to be surgeon-in-charge of a military orthopaedic centre in Manchester as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
By 1932, his posts included being senior honorary surgeon and surgeon-in-charge of the orthopaedic service, Ancoats Hospital, as consulting orthopaedic surgeon for Lancashire County Council and in 1939 he advanced on his earlier status as a clinical lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Manchester when he was appointed professor
He was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1940, serving there for eighteen years, and was elected Vice-President in 1949-1950 and President 1954-1957, being made a baronet on completing his term as president He delivered the Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1950 on the subject of bone sarcomas.
Platt had been much influenced by the work of Robert Jones in Liverpool and by his training in the United States of America. He continued to be inspired by United States methods for medical training and organisation. Among those whom he influenced in turn was John Charnley.
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December 20, 1986 (aged 100)