Thomas Pell Platt

After attending a school at Little Dunham, Norfolk, he was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, as pensioner on 25 Nov. 1815.

While at Cambridge he became connected with the British and Foreign Bible Society, where he served for several years as its librarian.

[1][2] Platt was one of the earliest members of the Royal Asiatic Society, and sat on its oriental translation committee.

He made notes of the readings which particularly struck, in the Gospels; for the Acts and the Epistles he used only one manuscript and Brian Walton's text.

[1] In 1827 Platt defended the British and Foreign Bible Society from an attack made on their publications in the Quarterly Review.