The death 4s announced with Fegret_ of Mr. Cyril Comyn-Platt, }for a number of years a sharebroker jin Shanghai, who died at East Molesey, Surrey, on November 1 [The brother of the late Rev. T. D. Platt, vicar of Portsea, Hants, he }was a relative of one of the original partners of the law frm of Platt, White-Cooper & Ca, and for several years acted as broker for that firm, sharing an office with the late Mr. P. Creighton, (An Appreciation)
One of my chief regrets is that jin my long life 1 have taken notes and possess no records of the many friends who have passed away; and now another has gone in the person of Mr. C, H. Comyn-Platt, who was Known to everyone Jas "Cycil." That means something.
He was, I know, at school at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and there learnt at any rate a love for music which lasted all his life, He game out to Hongkong as private secretary to the Governor of Hong-/kong, Sir H. Robinson, T think it we [sta of Messrs. Poole, Lauder & Ca, fand after a spell there returned for whom he worked both in Tien: 'England and subsequently was apsin and in Shanghai. He then en-Pointed Governor of Hull' Prison, tered the employment of 'Messrs. Unfortunately, T cannot name the [Jardine, Matheson & Ca, Lid, ai year when he arrived in' Shanghai, [Tientsin on May 1, 1907, and in the but his brother, Mr. W. A. C. Platt, lroliowing year was' transferred 10 the was here then. Some friends, con-[Shanghai "Ofice "in charge of the sisting of Mr. Prentice, Mr. @thina Produce Department, which he Jackson, Mr, Clarence Wrighison, jsiartea and developed very success:
it, McMichael, and Mr. luily for his employers. Early. in i829 Mr. Forster commenced trading Jon "his own account as G.P. Forster jin the profession ' of sharebroking.
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