Robert Gordon Latham 2452034 179486427 2007-12-21T23:35:59Z Garion96 397881 +image [[Image:Robert Gordon Latham.jpg|thumb|Robert Gordon Latham]] '''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]] == References == {{Nuttall}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Latham, Robert Gordon}} [[Category:1812 births]] [[Category:1888 deaths]] [[Category:American ethnologists]] [[Category:American philologists]] [[Category:People from Lincolnshire]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:Fellows of King's College, Cambridge]] {{Scientist-stub}} [[de:Robert Gordon Latham]]