Early Life
The eldest son of Thomas Latham, vicar of Billingborough, Lincolnshire, he was born there on 24 March 1812. He entered Eton College in 1819, and in 1829 went to King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1832, and was soon afterwards elected a Fellow.
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