John Platt (MP)

John Platt (16 September 1817 – 18 May 1872) was an English manufacturer of textile machinery and Liberal politician.

By the mid-1850s his company had established itself as the world's largest textile machinery manufacturer.

[2] Platt acquired property in Llanfairfechan North Wales in 1857 and rebuild Bryn Y Neuadd as a magnificent mansion.

[5] Platt's younger brother James Platt (1824–1857) was also elected MP for Oldham in 1857,[1] but was killed that same year in Greenfield at Ashway Gap on Saddleworth Moor by an accidental discharge of the gun of Josiah Radcliffe, the Mayor of Oldham.

[7] A statue was erected of John Platt in Oldham by David Watson Stevenson in 1878.