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mother, his eldest daughter, survived him, as did also her 

 brothers. Of these the second son, Peter Mere Latham, 

 M.D., of Grosvenor - street, Westminster, one of Her 

 Majesty's Physicians Extraordinary, was long well known 

 as an eminent consulting physician regarding diseases of 

 the chest, until his own severe sufferings from asthma 

 obliged him to retire to Torquay, where he died on July 

 20, 1875. 



From our being related to John Latham and his wife, 

 Mary Mayer (although in point of rank the difference was 

 so enormous between the head from whom we could trace 

 and ourselves), it is permissible to allude to our connection 

 with the family of Arderne of Alvanley, and consequent 

 descent from King Edward the First and his wife, Eleanor 

 of Castile. This gave us our claim of " founder's kin " 

 in the election to the " Port Fellowship " of Brasenose 

 College, to which distinction in my time my brother 

 Rev. John Arderne Ormerod was elected. He was the 

 last Port Fellow on the above foundation. The record 

 of each generation will be found in the genealogical table of 

 "Arderne" in my father's " Parentalia," and also on re- 

 ference to the pedigrees of the many families of which 

 members are named in the " History of Cheshire." 



