Latham, R. T. E. (Richard Thomas Edwin)

Richard Thomas Edwin Latham, the son of Sir John Greig Latham (who was leader of the Federal Opposition in Australia in the early 1930s and later Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia) was a brilliant student at Scotch College, Melbourne, 1922-1926. He continued his successful scholastic career at the University of Melbourne where he graduated Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in the combined Schools of History and Philosophy in April 1930, and also studied four Law subjects in 1930 as part of a LLB. He won a Rhodes Scholarship for Victoria in November 1931, studied Law at Oxford University, where he wrote on constitutional law, was called to the English Bar and joined the Foreign Office for a time before entering the RAF where he was commissioned as an observer. Latham was listed missing on 15 April 1943 when an Australian torpedo bomber which he was navigating failed to return from a scheduled attack on an enemy convoy off the Norwegian coast.

From the description of The New Hebrides condominium, 1930 [microform]. [ca. 1930]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 271862132