Lathom, Francis, 1774-1832

found: Midnight bell, 2007 :ECIP t.p. (Francis Lathom) data view (birthdate corrected from 1777 to 1774 -- eleven bib records changed.) book, introd. (born 1774 in Rotterdam; moving back to Norwich, of which his father was a native, he rapidly became a successful playwright; he had a string of popular successes while at the same time writing and publishing a regular series of novels; at some point, he left Norwich, probably in 1802 or 1803, moving eventually to Scotland, and lived first at Inverurie and subsequently at Fyvie; in his last years he moved to Monquhitter very nearby, where he died in 1832)

found: Wikipedia, viewed May 11, 2016(Francis Lathom was born on 14 July 1774, either in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich, or he was born in Norwich and may have been the illegitimate son of an English peer; he joined the Norwich Stock Company, a stock theatre company, in 1791 and began his literary career there; he eventually settled in rural Scotland with the Rennie family, where he died in Aberdeenshire in 1832; he was buried under the name of 'Mr James Francis' in a plot in Fyvie churchyard belonging to the Rennie family)

found: Dictionary of national biography, 1892 (Francis Lathom, 1777-1832; novelist and dramatist, born Norwich, England, illegitimate son of an English peer; died 19 May 1832)

found: The Literary Gothic, archived webpage for Francis Lathom, accessed 11 May 2016(Francis Lathom was born in Rotterdam, Holland, 14 July 1774; his family returned to England 3 years later (thus leading to the erroneous assignation of a birthdate in 1777; thanks to Franz Potter of Zittaw Press for correct birth information) - http://archive.is/EUx9y