Richard Pelling Latter

Role: Husband of Esther Farrow (daughter of Charles Farrow and Elizabeth Hannah Telfer) — engineer and prominent Mannum townsman.

Born: c.1860 — Lint, Victoria (family book; approximate)
Died: 15 June 1936 — Mannum, South Australia
Spouse: Esther Farrow Latter (1859–1951) (m. 2 March 1882, Finniss Point, SA)

Family

Life Summary

Richard Pelling Latter married Esther Farrow — second child of Charles Farrow and Elizabeth Hannah Telfer — on 2 March 1882 at Finniss Point, South Australia. They settled at Mannum on the River Murray and raised three children: Ida Jane, Daisy Vera, and Kenneth Harry.

Richard worked for James Martin & Co. of Gawler, the colony's celebrated farm-machinery makers. He packed a shipment of harvesters for Argentina and travelled with them, staying on to assemble and trial the machines for Argentine farmers — his letters home from Buenos Aires (November–December 1903) survive in the family.

He was a pillar of Mannum civic life for decades: a long-serving committee member of the Mannum Institute, Captain of the Mannum Defence Rifle Club (repeatedly re-elected through 1910–1914), and a member of local progress and church committees. Newspaper accounts of the era repeatedly name him — presiding at club socials, seconding motions at Institute meetings, and helping erect the fair stalls.

(Richard's death is dated 15 June 1936 at Mannum by the Mannum Institute descendant report and the family book. Note his widow Esther's death — see Notes on her profile — is settled at 31 October 1951.)

Timeline

Sources

• Source: Mannum Institute — Richard Pelling LATTER descendant report — "Richard Pelling LATTER was born ABT 1860 and died 15 Jun 1936 in Mannum, SA. He married Esther FARROW 02 Mar 1882 in Finniss Point, SA"; three children Ida Jane, Daisy Vera, Kenneth Harry — accessed 11 September 2026
• Source: Mannum Institute — newspaper compendium — multiple Trove-sourced articles 1891–1914 naming "Mr R. P. Latter" as Institute committeeman and Captain of the Mannum Defence Rifle Club; also "Mr. H. P. Wishart" at the 1913 fair — accessed 11 September 2026
• Source: A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement to From the Borders to the Bush, 2008), pp.37–39 — Latter descendant line — accessed 11 September 2026
• Source (login-walled, partial — district variance): Genealogy SA — Death Registrations index, 581/2521: Richard Pelling Latter, d. 15-Jun-1936, age 76, district Angaston — read from a paid member session; the district differs from the local Mannum record (date and age agree) — accessed 22 September 2026