John Latey
John Latey (30 October 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.[1] He himself wrote parliamentary sketches for the ILN under the pseudonym 'The Silent Member'. He also wrote novels and translated Dumas and Paul Féval.[2] Latey joined the Penny Illustrated Paper when it was started by William Ingram in 1861, and was the paper's art and literary paper until 1901. He co-edited the Boys Illustrated Newspaper with Captain Mayne 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), 1882
References
- W. B. Owen, ‘Latey, John (1842–1902)’, rev. Joanne Potier, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 Jan 2008
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