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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham 2nd Baronet | |
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Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby | |
In office 6 May 1931 –18 August 1941 | |
Preceded by | Sidney Herbert |
Succeeded by | Alexander Spearman |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 April 1905 |
Died | 24 July 1955 50) | (aged
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Lady Patricia Doreen Moore (1933–1943) |
Alma mater | Magdalen College,Oxford |
Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham,2nd Baronet (22 April 1905 –24 July 1955) [1] was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby constituency from 1931 to 1941.
The son of Sir Thomas Paul Latham and his wife Florence Clara née Walley,he was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College,Oxford. [2]
Between 1928 and 1934 Latham was a member of the London County Council,representing Lewisham East as a member of the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party. [2] [3]
At the 1929 general election,he stood as the Conservative candidate in Rotherham, [2] a safe seat for the Labour Party where he was runner-up with 23% of the votes. [4]
In April 1931 the standing MP for Scarborough and Whitby,Sidney Herbert,resigned from the House of Commons. Latham was selected as the Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election on 6 May,which he won with a majority of 5% of the votes over his Liberal Party opponent. [4]
During World War II,despite being exempt from military service,Latham volunteered to join the army. In 1941,however,he was arrested [5] for "improper behaviour",a homosexual act,with three gunners and a civilian [6] (letters he had written to those involved had been discovered) while serving as an officer in the Royal Artillery. [2]
Latham then tried to kill himself by riding a motorcycle into a tree. [7] [8]
He was court-martialled and found guilty of ten charges of indecent conduct and of attempted suicide and was discharged dishonourably and imprisoned for two years without hard labour. Latham's court-martial was the first time a sitting MP who was also in the army had been court-martialled since Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray in 1815. He resigned his seat in Parliament. [9] After his release in 1943 Latham commented to his fellow MP Henry Channon that he had found conditions and treatment at Maidstone Gaol better than at Eton. [10]
In 1933 Latham married Lady Patricia Doreen Moore,the daughter of Henry Moore,10th Earl of Drogheda and Kathleen Pelham Burn. [2] She divorced him in 1943 and died in 1947. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by their only son,Richard Thomas Paul Latham,born in April 1934. [2]
In 1932 Latham purchased Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex and carried on its restoration. [2]
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