Background
Latewar was the son of Thomas Latewar of London, and in 1571 was sent to Merchant Taylors" School.
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Richard Latewar
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Street John"s College.
Career
He was elected scholar of Street John"s College, Oxford, in 1580, and in due course became fellowship He was admitted Bachelor of Arts 28 November 1584, Master of Arts 23 May 1588, Bachelor of Divinity 2 July 1594, and Doctor of Divinity 5 February 1597. In 1593 Latewar was proctor, at which time he was rector of Hopton, Suffolk.
In 1596 he was recommended by the university of Oxford as one of the candidates for the first Gresham professorship of divinity.
On 28 June 1599 he was appointed rector of Finchley, Middlesex,
As chaplain to Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, Latewar accompanied Blount on his expedition to Ireland. He died on 17 July 1601, from a wound received at Benburb, County Tyrone, on the previous day, and was buried in the church at Armagh.
A monument was erected to Latewar"s memory in Street John"s College chapel by his father. The date of his death is incorrectly given as 27 July.
Nicholas Amhurst, in his Terræ Filius (p 185), alleges that on the monument there were these lines:
A sero bello dives durusque vocatus,
A sero bello nomen et omen habet.
They are not there now. The actual inscription is given in Anthony Wood"s History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, (p 566, 1786 edition). lieutenant has been attributed, on internal evidence, to Matthew Gwinne.
