Baron Latham, of Hendon in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1942 for the Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 politician Charles Latham

Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham

Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham was a British politician and Leader of the London County Council from 1940 to 1947....

. He was Leader of the London County Council

London County Council

London County Council was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889–1965 existence, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today known as Inner London and was replaced by the Greater London Council...

 from 1940 to 1947. the title is held by his grandson, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1970. He is the elder twin son of the Hon. Francis Charles Allman Latham (d. 1959). Lord Latham lives in Australia

Australia

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Barons Latham (1942)

• Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham
  Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham
  Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham was a British politician and Leader of the London County Council from 1940 to 1947....
  
  (1888–1970)
• Dominic Charles Latham, 2nd Baron Latham (b. 1954)