Geoffrey Chitty Latham (15 March 1887 – 23 September 1980) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial administrator.
The son of the cricketer and judge Thomas Latham, he was born in China in March 1887.
[4] During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the Northern Rhodesia Police and was decorated by France with the Légion d'honneur in August 1917.
[6] In April 1924, Latham was made director of the newly created sub-department for native education in Northern Rhodesia.
[4] Despite his opposition to the introduction of film to native Rhodesians, in case it became politicized as it had in British India, Latham changed his stance in the early 1930s in an effort to expand and improve native education.