Peter Mere Latham

Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) was an English physician and "a great medical educator".

Described as "a very delicate child", he attended Sandbach School where he resided with his paternal grandmother (Sarah Latham née Podmore).

Around 1796, he was transferred to Macclesfield Grammar School, and on to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1807.

In 1815 Latham was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital, and to St Bartholomew's in 1824.

By her he had four children, two sons, Weyland Mere, Philip Arderne, and two daughters, Diana Frances and Mary Grace.