Ella Latham

Eleanor Mary "Ella" Latham CBE (née Tobin; 10 October 1878 – 26 March 1964) was an Australian charity worker and hospital administrator.

[1] The following year she and her friend Jessie Webb published a poetry anthology titled Phases of Literature from Pope to Browning: Prose and Verse Selections.

[1] Along with medical director Vernon Collins and lady superintendent Lucy de Neeve, Latham oversaw the transformation of RCH from "a charity hospital to an institution that provided medical services of the highest quality, education and training facilities for staff, a research organization in both curative and preventive medicine, and a link with the university".

She helped establish a rehabilitation centre for disabled children at Frankston,[1][5] including a "craft hostel" providing training in carpentry and home economics.

The couple were predeceased by their daughter Freda, who died from complications of diabetes, and older son Richard, who was killed in World War II.

Latham and her husband in Melbourne in 1940