John Latey (journalist)

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

Life[]

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 with Captain Mayne Reid from 1881 to 1882, and was editor of The Sketch from 1899 until his death in September 1902.[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.

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. ^ Jump up to: a b "Latey, John" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1912.
  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

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