LATHAM ROAD and LATHAM CLOSE
NOTES:
A. Much more information about these houses, and many (but by no means all) of the people listed, can be found in “Rus in Urbe”, by Jane M Renfrew, Magnus A Renfrew and John K Rose, published by Solachra, Cambridge, in 1996.
B. Please read the general notes about these street pages.
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LATHAM ROAD
1 Latham Road
Strathmore, Douglas Bank
1913-22 Alexander and Annie (Bartholomew) Macintosh with children
1924-35 Geoffrey and Inda (Sedgwick) Morris
1930-35 Miss Florence Arbon [parlourmaid]
1934-35 Miss Doris Searle [cook]
1946-51 William and Mabel (Eardley) Nicholes
1949-51 John and Sylvia (Nicholes) Dulley (daughter of William and Mabel)
1946-48 Mrs Alison (Elias) Hollick
1946-47 Miss Frances Roseveare
1948-49 John and Dorothea (Rodwell) Bourdillon
1950-55 Miss Iris Martindale
1952-55 Mrs Freda (Martindale) Milliken (Iris’ sister)
Flat 1, 1 Latham Road
1952-56 William and Anne (Appleton) Lidbury
Flat 2, 1 Latham Road
1955 Albert and Molly (Merry) Pilsworth
1956-57 Miss Iris Martindale
1956-57 Mrs Freda (Martindale) Milliken (Iris’ sister)
Flat 3, 1 Latham Road
1953-56 John and Athene Withycombe
1957 Archibald and Marjorie (Ayer) Sidders
Flat 4, 1 Latham Road
1955-56 Archibald and Marjorie (Ayer) Sidders
1963-66 Mrs Stella (Brawn) Rothery
Flat 5, 1 Latham Road
1957-65 Joan Waldron (no information)
Flat 6, 1 Latham Road
1957-70 Margaret Thorburn (no information)
1957-65 Miss Cynthia Nicoll
1a Latham Road
Wilbury
1946-71 Alfred and Ethel (Dyer) Lucas-Smith
2 Latham Road
Nurseries, Latham End, The Pink House
1824-61 Michael and Maria Brewer with children
1871-91 George and Catherine (Littlechild) Willers with children and sister Miss Mary Littlechild
1871-1915 George H and Alice (Lawrence) Willers (son of George and Catherine) with daughter Miss Kitty Willers
1916-37 Arthur and Mary (Willers) Stallan (daughter of George and Catherine)
1939-57 William and Adele (Ogilvy) Guthrie with daughter Miss Anne Guthrie
1958-70 Arthur and Edith (Eccleston) Hunt
3 Latham Road
Newlands
1914-22 Alfred and Mabel (Rumsey) Bartlett
1923-30 Alfred and Dorothy (Reed) Bartlett
1931-71 Frederick Caröe
4 Latham Road
1938-70 Reuben and Nesta (Jones) Heffer
1945-46 George and Brita (Tragardh) Angeloglou
5 Latham Road
Gransett
1925-53 Percy and Louisa (Bester) Johnson with daughter Miss Margaret Johnson
1930 Miss Helen Burling [cook] with Miss Maud Burling [parlourmaid]
1939-48 Miss Eleanor Acker (in 1948 Mrs Eleanor Stallabrass and husband Andrew Stallabrass) [cook]
1954-78 John and Marguerite (Harvey) Green
7 Latham Road
Lanthorn
1925-75 Conrad and Mary (Polkinghorne) Skinner with daughter Miss Rosemary Skinner
1945-46 Richard and Rosemary (Skinner) Crossley-Holland (daughter of Conrad and Mary)
8 Latham Road
Southacre
1880-1902 Henry Latham
1901 Edward Latham (Henry’s brother)
1881-1901 Miss Emma Ball [housekeeper, cook]
1881-1901 Miss Sarah Drury [housemaid] with niece Miss Hilda Drury [underhousemaid]
1881 Miss Ann Cowles [under housemaid] with brother James Cowles [coachman]
1881 Albert Pamplin [footman]
1881 Miss Eliza White [kitchenmaid]
1891 John Forbes [footman]
1903-07 Lothar and Victoria (Buxton) de Bunsen with children
1911-12 Frederick and Mary (Randall) Hatch with children
1911 Miss Rachel Carter [cook]
1913-15 Charles and Josephine (Wolf) Wolf with Josephine’s Tallerman children
1919-20 Prince Albert and Prince Henry
1919-20 Louis and Phyllis (Scrimgeour) Greig
1924-38 Harold and Ethel (Baber) Churchill with children
1939-48 Hans and Margarete (Bondi) Schlossmann with children
1939 Herbert and Maria (Schroder) Eckstein
In 1949 the University bought Southacre and converted the main house into 5 flats. Flats 6 to 17 were built in the garden of Southacre in 1951 – see Southacre Drive on the page with Chaucer Road.
Southacre House was demolished in 1989 and replaced by the Southacre Park development in Southacre Drive.
Flat 1, 8 Latham Road
1952 Peter and Evelyn (Nutt) Ackroyd
1953 Sydney and Edith (Anthony) Checkland
1955 William and Aenea (McCallum) Allen
1957 Lucjan and Diana (Nixon) Lewitter
Flat 2, 8 Latham Road
1952 Malcolm Boston
1953 Frederick and Mair (Jones) Spratling
1954 Alexander and Olive (Hunter) Nicol
1955 Christopher and Mary (Hall) Cheney
1956 Leslie and Annie (Dyson) Jaeger
1959 Walter and Kathleen (MacPherson) Grave
Flat 3, 8 Latham Road
1950 Arthur and Edith (Eccleston) Hunt
1953-54 Hugh and Anna (Harris) McCleery
1955 Timothy and Claire (Goldingham) Glover
1957 James and Megan (Jones) Prentis
Flat 4, 8 Latham Road
1952 Peter and Gunvor (Hellgren) Brand
1953 Edwin and Winona (Relyea) Pulleyblank
1956 Gabriel (later Sir Gabriel) and Ann (Soper) Horn
Flat 5, 8 Latham Road
1950 Albert and Valerie (Dees) Townsend
1952 Basil and Margaret (Rigg) Herbertson
8a Latham Road
Southacre Lodge
1881-1901 Henry and Fanny (Elwood) Cowles
1904-11 Wilfred and Jane (Radford) Blows with children
1915-24 William and Annie (Musselwhite) Humphries
1926-30 Mrs Rose (Withers) Driver
1931 Alfred and Marjorie (Bolt) Dixon
1933-35 Edgar and Margaret (Hardy) Bate-Smith
1937-38 Frank and Alfreda (Hirst) Schofield
1939 Anthony and Mary (Deane) Weston-Webb
1945-70 Mrs Nora (Smithers) Connor with daughter Mrs Noreen (Connor) Campbell
1945-48 Mrs Nora (Duncan) Reeve
1949-52 Miss Ethel Bowers [servant]
9 Latham Road
Dormers
1926-39 Harold and Ada (Burrow) Bailey
1930-39 Mrs Bessie (Stubbings) Challis [housekeeper]
1934-39 Miss Ruby Burling [parlourmaid]
1945-48 Gerald Fitzgerald
1948 Geoffrey and Rosamond (Clifford) Fairbairn
1949-58 Hans and Margarete (Bondi) Schlossmann with children
1959-64 Thomas and Freda (Barrington) Bird
1965-81 Mrs Celia (Paget) Goodman
The Flat, 9 Latham Road
1956-57 James and Marietta (Wolf-Ferrari) Lund
10 Latham Road
Strathmore, Nandour, Niddrys, Niddryswynd
1904-12 Alexander and Annie (Bartholomew) Macintosh with children
1913-24 Henry and Gladys (Whymper) Jackson
1925-52 Charles and Eleanor (Moffat) Inglis with children
1950-64 Mrs Rosemary (Inglis) Schofield (daughter of Charles and Eleanor)
Flat 2, 10 Latham Road
1965-70 Mrs Rosemary (Inglis) Schofield (daughter of Charles and Eleanor)
11 Latham Road
Meads
1931-36 Harry and Martha (Tetlow) Brownsword
1938 Bruce and Marjorie (Rundle) Caswell
1939 Kenneth and Jean (Beaven) Gaskell
1945-56 Mrs Martha (Tetlow) Brownsword with sisters Miss Mary Tetlow and Miss Margaret Tetlow
1945-56 Miss Margaret Lewis [servant]
1957-61 Hugh and Margaret (Jolly) Davis
1962-70 William and Betty (Smart) Elliott
12 Latham Road
King’s Croft
1911-39 Kingsbury and Mary (Dysart) Jameson
1934-36 Guy and Florence (Eames) Dent
1937-49 Anthony and Eileen (Johnson) Steel
1945-46 Miss Ethel Bowers [servant]
1950-62 Ronald and Frances (Steel) Henderson
1963-70 William and Valerie (Kenyon) Chivers
13 Latham Road
Leys House
1951-70 Thomas and Joan (Whitchurch) Hayward
14 Latham Road
Ulleskelf
1910-30 Ralph and Eleanor (Heale) Goodchild with daughters
1931-49 Archibald and Violet (Beadon) Campbell with children
1935-39 Miss Winifred Burgess [servant]
1950 Michael and Joan (Hamilton) Ramsey
1951-64 George and Mary (Williams) Keates
1951-53 John and Jane (Wood) Bradfield
1954 Alan and Marion (Mathieu) MacDiarmid
1969-70 Oliver and Charlotte (Alexander) Carey
15 Latham Road
Whitsunden, Fearnoch, Rosings
1912-21 Herbert and Edith (Boxwell) Lewin
1924-47 John and Alexa (Russell) Wallace
1934 Miss Dora Burbridge [cook]
1934-38 Miss Ellen Jefferson
1940-48 Daniel Fernandez-Shaw
1948-61 Mrs Janet (Miller) Henderson with son Ronald Henderson
1951-62 William and Jean (Dempster) Peppercorn
1963-68 George and Charlotte (Cook) Olive
16 Latham Road
1935-48 Miss Marjory Stephenson
1935-36 John and Emily (Himmelveit) Yudkin
1939 Jonathan and Isobel Sinclair
1946-48 Mrs Caroline (Parker) Mitchley [cook]
1949 John and Margaret (Lapping) Garraway
1951 Joseph and Angela (Buckley) Cooke-Hurle
1952-70 Laszlo and Rachel (Wallis) Rostas
17 Latham Road
Marienhaus, Faraway
1911-32 Sydney and Mary (Routh) Cole
1933-67 Ernest and Ada (Ginn) Vinter with children
1936-38 Miss Winifred Purkiss [servant]
19 Latham Road
River Farm
1836-59 Lilley Edleston with sisters Miss Martha Edleston and Miss Sarah Edleston
1859-91 Thomas Bland
1861-63 John and Ann (Dring) Woods with children
1871-89 Mrs Isabella (Oldershaw) Paveley [housekeeper]
1881-91 Miss Emma Avis [servant]
1891 Miss Emily Arnold [servant]
1901-21 Alexander and Matilda (Lees) Towler with children and Matilda’s half-brother Sextus Lees with his mother Mary Lees
1921-32 Oswald and Bertha (Westrope) Duke with daughter Miss Mary Duke
1925-31 Alfred Erswell
1932-39 Job and Ethel (Cross) Webster
1944-70 Harold and Doris (Newman) Webster (son of Job and Ethel)
21 Latham Road
Mole End
1935-39 Harold and Doris (Newman) Webster (son of Job and Ethel)
1944-48 Job and Ethel (Cross) Webster
1948-50 George and Rosamond (Foster) Gough
1949-70 Leslie and Vivien (Horsey) Ashton
1 River Farm Cottages
1871-94 George and Tabitha (Long) Stevens with children
1871 Thomas and Mary Thorogood
1901 Charles and Harriet (Anderson) Abrahams with children
1906 David and Mary (Baker) Badcock with children
1911 James and Mary (Chapman) Leonard with children
1916-27 Arthur and Sarah (Baulk) Pearce
1928-37 Frederick and Florence (Mead) Rash (son of Thomas and Annie next door)
1938-57 Herbert and Hannah (Wilson) Saunders with children
2 River Farm Cottages
1871 James and Susan (Wright) Belverstone
1881-87 Thomas and Elizabeth Thorogood
1891 William and Charlotte (Alderton) Knights
1901-02 John and Mary (Molton) Marshall with daughter Miss Ida Marshall
1909-15 Walter and Blanche (Morley) Webb
1918-22 James and Ann (Wayman) Rollings with children
1923-39 Thomas and Annie (Baker) Rash
1945-48 William and Mercy (Turner) Owers with children
1949-65 William and Lily (Budden) Matthews
LATHAM CLOSE
1 Latham Close
Farrell’s House
1962-75 Michael Farrell
2 Latham Close
1959-63 Philip (later Sir Philip) and Elizabeth (Harrison) Randle
1964-70 Geoffrey and Barbara (Traill) Kirk
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