John Latham (1761–1843)

of Oriel College, Oxford, and was born at Gawsworth in the county of Chester, 29 December 1761, in the house of his great-uncle, the Rev.

He received his early education at Manchester Grammar School, under Charles Lawson, A.M., Head Master, and entered Commoner of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1778, where, having gone through the previous degrees in arts, he was created M.B.

Latham passed the first years of his professional life at Manchester and Oxford, where in both places he was elected physician to the respective infirmaries.

In a few months he was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital, afterwards to the Magdalen, and in the year 1792, succeeded David Pitcairn at St. Bartholomew's, about which time he settled in Bedford Row, and remained there until 1808, when he moved to Harley Street.

[8][9] He died on 20 April 1843 at Bradwall Hall, from complications arising from bladder stones,[10] and is buried at St Mary's Church, Sandbach (gravestone).

The other was engraved by Robert William Sievier, from a painting by John Jackson representing Dr. Latham as President of the College of Physicians.