Latham Gallery

Sir Paul Latham and Lady Patricia Moore engaged 1933

Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham, 2nd Baronet (22 April 1905 24 July 1955), British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby constituency from 1931 to 1941, pictured with his fiancee Lady Patricia Doreen Moore, daughter of the Earl of Drogheda and Kathleen, Lady Drogheda. Latham was arrested for improper behaviour while serving in the army during the Second World War. He attempted suicide twice and served two years in prison, resigning his seat in Parliament. He and Kathleen divorced in 1943; she died in 1947. Date: 1933

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Ou, Psittirostra psittacea. Critically endangered

Ou, Psittirostra psittacea, male (top) and female. Critically endangered, possibly extinct. (Parrot-billed grosbeak, Loxia psittacea). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822. Date:

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Lesser akialoa (extinct) and cardinal

Lesser akialoa, Hemignathus obscurus (extinct) and cardinal myzomela, Myzomela cardinalis. (Hook-billed green honey-eater, Certhia obscura, native to Hawaii, and cardinal honey-eater, Certhia cardinalis, native to Tanna, Vanuatu.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822. Date:

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