[1] He was born in St Pancras, London, the son of Henry Latham, a Chancery registrar, and died at Folkestone, Kent.
[2] As a cricketer, Latham was a middle-order right-handed batsman.
In 1874 he played for MCC against Cambridge University in the university's match immediately before the University Match, and then was picked for his second game against Oxford; this time, he was less successful with innings of 1 and 4, and Cambridge lost the game by an innings.
Educated at Highgate School, Winchester College and St John's College, Cambridge, Latham graduated in 1874 and was called to the bar as a barrister in the same year.
He practised on the Western circuit; then from 1881 to 1888 he was special pleader at the courts in Shanghai, after which he retired to Folkestone where he died in 1926.