Henry Elliot Malden

“ As a conservative reformer he helped to recast the college statutes in 1857. An innovator from another college, Latham provoked criticism from some of his colleagues, but his personal influence as a college tutor on pupils of all capacities, his sound judgment, and breezy commonsense steadily overcame all obstacles. His interest was always rather in men than in books, and his conversational and anecdotal powers were remarkable. ”

“ Trinity Hall was then a small and almost exclusively a law college. The master, Sir Herbert Jenner-Fust [q. v.] , was dean of arches. The fellows were advocates of Doctors' Commons] or barristers, with the exception of two clerical fellows, who were almost always brought from other colleges and acted as tutors. There were thirty-nine undergraduates. The men rarely took degrees except in civil law.
On the recommendation of Trinity friends, Latham was admitted to a vacant clerical fellowship, to which a tutorship was attached, 29 Dec. ”

“ He had the Lodge reconstructed, the hall enlarged, and at his own expense built a new combination room, the old being converted into a reference library. His health failed in 1901, and he died, unmarried, at the Lodge, on 5 June 1902. ”