Harry Platt

[5] Platt was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1940, serving there for eighteen years.

[6] This was the result of a three-year enquiry by a committee set up to investigate the welfare of children in hospital, as opposed to their medical needs.

[7] Committee members included Annie Altschul, Barbara Fawkes, Catherine Hall (nurse), and Winifred Hector.

He was invited to deliver the Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of surgeons in 1950, which he made on the subject of bone sarcomas.

[10] Platt was made a baronet in 1958, on completing his term as President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

He was appointed a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (KStJ) in February 1972.