Peter Wallwork Latham FRCP (1832–1923) was an English physician and professor of medicine at the University of Cambridge.
[3] Peter Latham served as an apprentice to this father, who was a physician, and then studied at the University of Glasgow,[3] before he matriculated in 1854 at Caius College, Cambridge.
[4] After studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Germany, he was elected in 1860 a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
[3] Latham was the Downing Professor of Medicine from 1874 to 1894, after serving from 1868 to 1874 as deputy to his predecessor William Webster Fisher.
Apart from conducting a large consulting practice, Latham did much, in association with George Humphry and Michael Foster, to increase the efficiency and prestige of the Cambridge Medical School as well as the prosperity of Downing College.