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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 revised Leo Sherley-Price's translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
R. E. Latham | |
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Born | Ronald Edward Latham 1907 |
Died | 1992 (aged 84–85) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics Literae humaniores |
Latham was educated at Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Literae humaniores.[1]
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 Civilization (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]
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