LAW, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS at Mich. 1609, apparently a Third Election (Chapter Muniments 41289).
LAVIE, TUDOR, eldest son of Col. Tudor Lavie, EICS Madras, Madras Artillery, and Emma Maria, dau. of Rev. Nicholas Wade, Senior Chaplain, EICS Bombay; b. 4 Apr 1832; adm. 27 Jan 1843 (G); QS 1846; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1850, matr. 23 May 1850, Westminster Student; Cadet, EICS Madras 1855; Ensign, 24th Native Infantry 26 Feb 1856; Lieut., 11 Jul 1860; Capt., Staff Corps 8 Dec 1867; retd. 20 Sep 1873; served in Indian Mutiny 1857; m. 19 Nov 1863 Emily Susan, only dau. of Rev. John Nelson, Rector of Peterstow, Herefs.; d. 5 Sep 1877.
LAVIE, GERMAIN, brother of Tudor Lavie (qv); b. 17 Mar 1836; adm. 18 Jan 1849; QS 1850; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1854, matr. 8 Jun 1854, Westminster Student 1854-61; 1st. Cl. Mods 1856; 4th cl. Lit. Hum. and 4th cl. Law and History 1857; BA 1858; MA 1861; Clements Inn Prize; adm. solicitor Trinity 1861; one of the Chancery Registrars from 1882; Busby Trustee 27 Jun 1897; author, The Westminster Play, its Actors and its Visitors, 1855; m. 3 Sep 1861 Myra Isabella, sister of Wilson Ashurst Hetherington (qv); d. 16 Jul 1901.
Laurie, Anthony Roger, son of Albert Stevenson Laurie of Amendas, S. Rhodesia, and Kathleen Komareck, d. of Bretton Priestley of Wrotham, Kent; b. 22 July 1918; adm. May 1932 (G); left July 1934; Wye Agricultural Coll.; enlisted RAF Sept. 1940; Sub. Lieut. (A) RNVR 1941, Lieut. (A) Aug. 1942; DSC (Arctic Convoy) 1942; lost in HMS Avenger, torpedoed after North African landings Nov. 1942.
Anthony Roger Laurie was born at Kodiakanal in South India on the 22nd of July 1918 the son of Albert Stephenson Laurie, an engineer, India Public Works Department, and Kathleen Komareck (nee Priestley) Laurie of 62, Vanburgh Park, Blackheath in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from May 1932 to July 1934. He went on to Wye Agricultural College after which he worked as a representative. He was awarded a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 18891) at Horton Kirby Flying Club on the 28th of June 1939 while flying a DH Moth aircraft. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1940 but transferred to the Fleet Air Arm and was commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant (A) in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1941. He was posted to 802 Naval Air Squadron based on board the escort carrier HMS Avenger (D14) and was promoted to Lieutenant (A) on the 15th of August 1942.
On the 2nd of September 1942, HMS Avenger left Loch Ewe to provide an escort to Convoy PQ-18 as the first escort carrier to escort an Arctic convoy. The convoy sailed to Seidisfiord in Iceland where it was joined by more vessels, swelling its numbers to forty merchantmen accompanied by a large number of escorts. On the 6th of September an enemy Focke Wulf 200 Condor attacked HMS Avenger with bombs but missed. British Naval Intelligence identified the enemy forces ranged against the convoy as consisting of twenty U-Boats, ninety two torpedo bombers and one hundred and twenty bombers, the largest force assembled against an Arctic convoy at that point in the war. Over the next week, the enemy threw great numbers of bombers and torpedo bombers against the convoy during which time Anthony Laurie was credited with the destruction of two Heinkel 111s and with damaging one other. The bulk of the surviving ships from PQ18 arrived at Archangel on the 21st of Spetember 1942.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his work on Arctic convoys, which was announced in the London Gazette of the 1st of December 1942.
On the 16th of October 1942, HMS Avenger, under the command of Commander Anthony Paul Colthurst RN, left Scapa Flow for Greenock with Sea Hurricane Mk IIb aircraft from 802 Squadron and 833 Squadron on board and with three Swordfish aircraft from B Flight, 833 Squadron. She was tasked with providing air cover for one of the convoys carrying troops and supplies for Operation Torch, the Allied landings at Algeria. When the ship arrived off the Algerian coast on the 8th of November her aircraft supported the landings by flying some sixty missions over the bridgehead. Aircraft from the carrier attacked enemy coastal defences as well as the airfields at Maison Blanche and at Blida.
The following day HMS Avenger was attacked by a Heinkel III which made a torpedo attack which narrowly missed the ship. On the 10th of November she transferred her aircraft to the escort carrier HMS Argus before docking at Algiers for repairs to be made to her engines. On the early morning of the 12th of November she set sail, joining Convoy MKF-1A, which was comprised mostly of empty ships which had taken part in the operations and were heading home. The convoy reached Gibraltar on the morning of the 14th of November and set sail once again at 6pm that evening bound for the UK.
At 3.05am on the 15th of November 1943, HMS Avenger was sailing some 45 nautical miles to the south of Cape Santa Maria, to the west of Gibraltar when the convoy received orders to make an immediate turn to starboard as a U-Boat had been detected in the area. Shortly afterwards the convoy was attacked by the U Boat U-155, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Adolf Piening, which fired three torpedoes. The first one hit the American transport ship USS Almaack with the second hitting the passenger transport ship HMTS Ettrick. The third torpedo hit HMS Avenger amidships on the port side at 3.20am which struck the bomb room and caused the ammunition stored there to explode. This secondary explosion broke the back of the ship and she sank in under five minutes
Anthony Laurie was one of five hundred and sixteen men who died when the ship sank. Only twelve members of her crew were rescued by the destroyer HMS Glaisdale (L44) after searching all night.
Lieutenant Commander N.F. Kingscote, Commanding Officer of the infantry landing ship HMS Ulster Monarch, wrote the following in a letter to the Admiralty: -
"At 0315, a vivid reddish flash appeared on the starboard side of Avenger stretching the whole length of the ship and lasting for about 2 seconds. This flash made a perfect silhouette of the ship, and was followed by a pall of black smoke. After the flash, nothing more was seen of Avenger but one or two small twinkling lights were observed in the water, obviously from floats. HMS Ulster Monarch passed over the position of Avenger within 3 minutes and nothing was seen...."
He is commemorated on the Lee-on-Solent Memorial Bay 3, Panel 7.
LATIMER, STURMAN, brother of Digby Latimer (qv); b. 4 Jan 1812; adm. 15 Jun 1824 (Stelfox's); KS 1826; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1830, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1830, scholar 1831; BA 1834; adm. solicitor Mich. 1837; practised at Headington, Oxfordshire; m. 8 Aug 1850 Emma Jarrett, youngest dau. of Rev. Charles Lyne DD, Rector of Mevagissey, Cornwall; d. 24 Jun 1892.
LATIMER, GEORGE BURTON POTTS, brother of Digby Latimer (qv); b. 28 Jun 1809; adm. 24 Sep 1822 (Stelfox's); KS 1824; left 1827; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Jul 1828; BA 1833; MA 1852; ordained deacon (Lichfield) 6 Aug 1834, priest 30 Oct 1836; Perpetual Curate of St. Paul’s, Birmingham 1848-67; bankrupt 1871; m. 22 Feb 1866 Elizabeth Sarah, third dau. of William Clark, Belford Hall, Northumberland.
LATIMER, DIGBY, third son of Edward Latimer, Headington House, Oxfordshire, wine merchant, and Elizabeth Jones; b. 24 Mar 1808; adm. 13 Jan 1819 (Packharness'); readm. 21 Jan 1822; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1825; BA 1831; MA 1833; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 6 May 1829, called to bar 15 Jun 1835; of Headington, Oxford; bankrupt 1871; m. 6 Jun 1844 Harriet, eldest dau. of Rev. Charles Lyne DD, Rector of Mevagissey, Cornwall; d. 11 Dec 1884. [Mother probably Elizabeth Jones (IGI)]
LATIMER, CHARLES, brother of Digby Latimer (qv); b. 28 Aug 1810; adm. 27 May 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1824; left 1826; living 1832.
Latham, James Henry Palmer, son of Percy James Latham OBE, Divnl. Inspector Min. of Health, and his second wife Daisy, d. of William Henry Carter of Broadstairs, Kent; b. 27 Nov. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (A); left July 1944; Hertford Coll. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA MA 1951; RA 1944-7; HM Inspector of Taxes 1951-82; consult. Grant Thornton Internat. 1986-; m. Sept. 1969 Muriel Emma, d. of Reginald Wilfred Hay of Caerleon, Monmouthshire; d. Nov. 2005.
Latham, Christopher Miles Wilkinson, brother of Ian Michael Wilkinson Latham (qv); b. 24 Feb. 1947; adm. Sept. 1960 (QS); left July 1964; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1965, BA 1968, MA 1973; market res. Wilkinson Sword Co.; free-lance market researcher; m. 1st, 31 Mar. 1970 Ellie Cleo Helen Yolanda, d. of Nikolaos Polydorou Nikolaiou, civil servant, of Athens, Greece; 2nd, Penelope d’Aguillar; 3rd, Tessa Leng; d. 23 Dec. 2014.