- John Latey
John Latey (
October 30 ,1842 -1902) was a British journalist and writer.Latey was a son of John Lash Latey (1808-1891), editor of the "
Illustrated London News " from 1858 to 1890. [Boase, "Modern English biography", 6 vols, 1892-1921.] He himself wrote parliamentary sketches for the "ILN" under the pseudonym 'The Silent Member'. He also wrote novels and translated Dumas and Paul Féval. ["Men and women of the time", 15th ed., 1899] Latey joined the "Penny Illustrated Paper " when it was started byWilliam Ingram in 1861, and was the paper's art and literary paper until 1901. He co-edited theBoys Illustrated Newspaper with CaptainMayne Reid from 1881 to 1882, and was editor of "The Sketch " from 1899 to 1902.Works
*"The Rose of Hastings"
*"Life of General Gordon"
*"Mohicans of Paris" (transl. of Dumas), 1875.
*"The River of Life: a London story", 1886
*"The Three Red Knights" (transl. of Paul Féval's "Le Fils du diable"), 1882References
*W. B. Owen, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34415 ‘Latey, John (1842–1902)’] , rev. Joanne Potier, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 Jan 2008
External links
* [http://members.aol.com/jehill1/latey9.htm Genealogical page about the Latey family]
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