John Latey (journalist)

John Latey (30 October 1842 – 26 September 1902) was a British journalist and writer.^[1]

John Latey

Life

His father John Lash Latey

Latey was a son of John Lash Latey (1808–1891), editor of the Illustrated London News from 1858 to 1890.^[2] He wrote parliamentary sketches for the ILN under the pseudonym 'The Silent Member'. He also wrote novels and translated Dumas and Paul Féval.^[3]

Latey joined the Penny Illustrated Paper when it was started by William Ingram in 1861, and was the paper's art and literary editor until 1901. He co-edited the Boys Illustrated Newspaper with Captain Mayne Reid from 1881 to 1882, and was editor of The Sketch from 1899 until his death.^[4]

In August 1872 he married Constance Lachenal. They had three sons and one daughter, Josephine, who in 1903 married the cartoonist and illustrator W. Heath Robinson.^[4] His son William Latey was a Divorce Commissioner.

Grave of John Latey in Highgate Cemetery

He died on 26 September 1902 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works

• The Rose of Hastings
• Life of General Gordon
• Mohicans of Paris (transl. of Dumas), 1875.^[5]
• The River of Life: a London story, 1886
• The Three Red Knights (transl. of Paul Féval's Le Fils du diable), 1882

References

1. "Latey, John". The Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1902: 504. 1903.
2. Boase, Modern English Biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921.
3. Men and women of the time, 15th ed., 1899
4. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Latey, John" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
5. Mohicans of Paris in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

• W. B. Owen, ‘Latey, John (1842–1902)’, rev. Joanne Potier, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, retrieved 1 Jan 2008

External links

• Genealogical page about the Latey family