Maurice Plevins Latter died on December 4th, 1940, as the result of enemy action, at the age of 41.
On leaving Charterhouse towards the end of the Great War he was for about a year a Cadet at the Royal Military Academy. He subsequently entered Trinity College, Cambridge, and obtained an honours degree in geology and chemistry.
After a brief engagement with the Burma Oil Company in Upper Assam, he returned to England and spent about eighteen months in study and research work on sedimentary petrology at the Royal School of Mines. He was awarded the D.I.C. and subsequently became a Fellow of the Geological Society. In 1925 he joined the staff of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation, and in that connexion visited South Africa, Tanganyika, Kenya and Australia.
Returning to England in 1938, he was for a time associated with Civil Defence work, and in November, 1939, enlisted in a Surrey regiment. Later, he obtained a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.
Mr. Latter was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1931.
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