Robert Gordon Latham
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'''Robert Gordon Latham''' ([[1812]]–[[1888]]) was an [[ethnologist]] and [[philologist]].
Born at [[Billingborough Vicarage]], [[Lincolnshire]], Latham studied philology in Scandinavia. He graduated from [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] in [[1832]] with a medical degree and practised medicine. He became a Fellow of [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College]]. After qualifying in medicine he held appointments in the London hospitals, but meanwhile was attracted to philology and ethnology, appointed professor of [[English Language and Literature]] in [[University College]], London, 1839, and director of the ethnological department of [[The Crystal Palace]], 1852.
He retired in 1863.
==Partial bibliography==
*''Descriptive Ethnology'', 1858
*''English Language'', [[1841]]
*''An Elementary English Grammar for the Use of Schools'', 1843
*''The Natural History of the Varieties of Mankind'', [[1850]]
*''The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies'', [[1851]]
*''The Ethnology of Europe'', [[1853]]
*''Logic in its Application to Language'', [[1856]]
*''OPUSCULA: Essays Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical'', [[1860]]
*''A Smaller English Grammar for the Use of Schools''", 1861
*''The Channel Islands'', [[1862]]
*''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'', [[1866]]
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