Peter Wallwork Latham

Peter Wallwork Latham (1832–1923) was an English physician and professor of medicine at the University of Cambridge.

Biography Peter Latham served as an apprentice to this father, who was a physician, and then studied at the University of Glasgow, After studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Germany, he was elected in 1860 a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. in 1861 he graduated MA and MB from the University of Cambridge and qualified MRCP. In April 1862 he was appointed assistant physician to the Westminster Hospital, but in 1863 he returned to Cambridge as physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital and lecturer at Downing College. He graduated in 1864 with the higher MD degree from the University of Cambridge.

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