R. E. Latham

Ronald Edward Latham (1907–1992) was an English classicist best known for his translation of On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius. He also translated The Travels of Marco Polo and Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

R. E. Latham
Born
Ronald Edward Latham

1907
Died1992 (aged 84–85)
Academic background
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Literae humaniores

Education

Latham was educated at Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Literae humaniores.[1]

Career

In 1934, he was appointed Assistant Keeper at the Public Record Office.[2] His 1938 lectures at the Working Men's College were published in book form as In Quest of Civiliation (1946).

In 1968, he was appointed the first editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources. In 1977 he retired, and was succeeded by David Howlett.[1]

Works
  • In quest of civilization. London: Jarrolds, 1946.
  • (tr.) Lucretius on the nature of the universe by Lucretius. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1951.
  • (tr.) The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian by Marco Polo. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1958.
  • (ed.) Revised medieval Latin word-list from British and Irish sources. London: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1965
  • (tr.) Ecclesiastical history of the English people with Bede's letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede.

References
  1. Editors: R. E. Latham
  2. The London Gazette, 7 September 1934, p.5961
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