She was the third of ten children and she and her elder siblings learned to be parents to their worker brothers and sisters.
Latham obtained a first class degree and she returned in 1889 to Cheltenham Ladies College to lead their maths teaching.
Her boss there was Dorothea Beale until 1897 when she left to be the Warden at Woodard school, St Anne's, at Abbots Bromley.
[1] She gave up leading schools to take a six-month trip to India to make a report for a conference.
[1] In 1910 she helped prepare a report for the World Missionary Conference on "Education in relation to the Christianisation of National Life".