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Robert Gordon Latham (1812–1888)
Latham, Robert Gordon. A distinguished English ethnologist and philologist; born at Billingborough, 1812; died at Putney, March 9, 1888. He is author of numerous works on the English tongue, among them a ‘Treatise on the English Language’ (1841; frequently republished); ‘History and Etymology of the English Language’ (1849); ‘Handbook of the English Language’ (1851); ‘Elements of Comparative Philology’ (1862). His principal works on ethnology are: ‘Natural History of the Varieties of Man’ (1850); ‘Man and his Migrations’ (1851); ‘Ethnology of the British Islands’ (1852); ‘Ethnology of Europe’ (1852); ‘Descriptive Ethnology’ (2 vols., 1859); ‘Russian and Turk’ (1878).