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Reverend Frederick Charles Platts

Frederick Charles Platts was an Anglican minister at the Holy Trinity Church in Sandridge, Port Melbourne, Victoria from 1862 until 1879, and at the Holy Trinity Church in Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand from 1880 to 1900. He was the head of a large family that included Daisy Elizabth Platts, one of the first female doctors in New Zealand, and F.W. Platts who became Mayor of Port Chalmers.

Frederick Platts was born in Barrackpore, India, the son of Captain Charles Platts of the old East India Company's army.