Gordon Latto (doctor)

Gordon Latto (25 June 1911 to 2 September 1998) was a Scottish doctor, nutritionist, naturopath and advocate for vegetarianism and against vivisection. Born in Dundee, he attended the High School of Dundee and qualified as a doctor at the University of St Andrews in 1935. After marrying Barbara Krebs in 1938 he toured Germany with her and learned about Sebastian Kneipp's hydrotherapy clinic in Munich and other naturopathic clinics. His patients included the round the world sailor Sir Francis Chichester. He was president of the Manchester Vegetarian Society from 1960 to 1987, overseeing its merger into the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom, and president of the International Vegetarian Union from 1971 to 1990, and he was a vice-president of the Anti-Vivisection Society. He retired from practice in 1995 and died in Reading. Nothing here is medical advice.