LATHAM, SAMUEL METCALFE. Vice consul at Dover for Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Sweden and Norway from 10 to 30
years to Jany. 1879; foreign office passport agent at Dover 30
July 1858; received in Jany. 1879 the following distinctions,
the rank of officer of Belgian order of Leopold, knighthood of
Italian order of the Crown, of Belgian order of the Crown of
Oak, and of order of Wasa of Sweden and Norway, also German
order of the Red Eagle. _d._ 4 June 1886.
LATHBURY, THOMAS (son of Henry Lathbury). _b._ Brackley,
Northamptonshire 1798; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1824,
M.A. 1827; C. of Chatteris, Cambs.; C. of Mangotsfield, Gloucs.
1831–8; C. of the Abbey ch. Bath 1838–48; V. of St. Simon’s,
Baptist Mills, Bristol 1848 to death; made a collection of
printed Service Books 1845; author of A history of the English
episcopacy from the period of the long parliament to the act
of uniformity 1836; A history of the convocation of the Church
of England 1842, 2 ed. 1853; A history of the nonjurors, their
controversies and writings 1845; A history of the book of
Common Prayer and other books of authority 1858; edited Jeremy
Collier’s An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain with a life
of the author 9 vols. 1852. _d._ 3 Cave st. Portland sq. Bristol
11 Feb. 1865.
LATIMER, JOHN PADDON (eld. son of Isaac Latimer, newspaper
proprietor, Plymouth). _b._ at Truro 1843; barrister M.T. 30
April 1869; one of parliamentary staff of The Times some years,
and was war correspondent in the Baltic provinces during the
Franco-German war 1870; edited Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,
Feb. 1878 to Feb. 1881; associated with his father and brother
in conducting the Western Daily Mercury; deputy stip. mag. at
West Ham 1884 to death. _d._ Glen View, Mannamead, Plymouth 22
May 1885 in 42 year.
LATIMER, THOMAS. _b._ Bristol 9 Aug. 1803; apprentice to Thomas
Davison, printer, Whitefriars, London; sec. London gymnastic
soc.; reporter Devonshire Chronicle, Exeter 1827, to Plymouth
Journal, to Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1830; sub-editor Western
Times 1831, editor and proprietor of Western Times, Exeter
183-, brought it out twice a week and then as a daily 1866; for
many years denounced the practices of the Puseyite party, and
defended a prosecution for libel brought against him by Henry
Phillpotts bishop of Exeter at Exeter assizes 27 March 1848 when
acquitted on plea of justification; presented with a service
of plate by the Reform party 1840; started the Tiverton Times
1865; presented with a salver and 550 sovereigns by the Liberal
party 1 Jany. 1868; transferred the Western Times to his son
Hugh Latimer and son in law S. H. B. Glanville 1873. _d._ 143
Fore st. Exeter 5 Jany. 1888. _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 57, 58,
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He _m._ in 1827 Miss Francis Annie Perry of London, she learnt
shorthand and helped her husband in his work. In 1830 T. Latimer was
the only shorthand writer in Devonshire.
LATOUR, HENRY LOUIS. With Henry Adams and Mr. Spurling ascended
from Cremorne gardens on 27 June 1854, being seated on a
parachute formed as a horse, a pair of wings on each side being
attached to it, his feet rested on a treadwheel intended to
move the wings, the parachute would not act and the balloon
was lowered near Marsh-lane station, Eastern Counties railway
when he was dashed against a tree, removed to Chasseraux Arms,
Tottenham where he _d._ 5 July 1854. _Times 11 July 1854 p._ 12.
LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe,
musical composer 1758–1836). _b._ London 20 March 1801; climbed
many Swiss mountains alone 1824–6; travelled in America 1832–4;
superintendent of Port Phillip district of New South Wales 30
Sep. 1839, lieut. governor of Victoria 27 Jany. 1851 to 5 May
1854; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; author of The Alpenstock, or sketches
of Swiss scenery and manners 1829; The Pedestrian: a summer’s
ramble in the Tyrol 1832; The Rambler in North America 2 vols.
1835; The Rambler in Mexico in 1836; The Solace of Song, short
poems suggested by scenes in Italy 1837. _d._ Clapham house,
Littlington near Eastbourne 4 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 575, 576
(1854), _portrait_, _xxvii_ 124 (1855).
LATROBE, JOHN ANTES (brother of preceding). _b._ London 1799;
ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of
Melton Mowbray; C. of Tintern, Monmouth; P.C. of St. Thomas’s,
Kendal 1840–65; hon. canon of Carlisle 1858 to death; author
of The music of the church considered in its various branches,
congregational and choral 1831; The chant, its character
explained 1838; Scripture illustrations, a series of engravings
1838; Sacred lays and lyrics 1850. _d._ Gloucester 19 Nov. 1878.
LATROBE, PETER (brother of preceding). _b._ 1795; took orders
in the Moravian church; secretary of the Unity of the Brethren
in England 1836 to death; an organist and composer; wrote an