Henry Latham

Born in Dover in 1821, Henry Latham spent his undergraduate years at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then devoted most of his career to Trinity Hall. He became a Church of England priest as well as an academic, and later served as Master of Trinity Hall from 1888 until his death in 1902.

Latham wrote on several subjects, which gives his work an unusually wide appeal for a nineteenth-century scholar. His books include On the Action of Examinations Considered as a Means of Selection, a serious study of testing and education, and Pastor Pastorum, a religious work on the training of the apostles by Christ. He also published Black and White: A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States, showing his eye for travel and social observation.

That mix of college life, religious thought, and firsthand travel writing makes him an interesting author to rediscover. Readers coming to Latham today will find a voice shaped by Victorian scholarship, but often focused on practical questions about teaching, character, and how people learn.