Latham's work includes a detailed transcription of Thomas's last conversation with his attending physician, Dr Bucknill junior. 4 In Latham's account, Thomas is termed “T.A.” and discussed as one of three anonymous individuals who died of angina pectoris. Stanley was commissioned by Mary Arnold to write her dead husband's biography. His last hours and minutes were recorded by Peter Mere Latham (or “Heart Latham” as he became known) in his work on heart disease, and by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, a student of Thomas Arnold and later dean of Westminster. The death of Thomas Arnold was unusually well-publicized in nineteenth-century Britain. 3 Each of these three generations of Arnold men diagnosed with angina pectoris died suddenly and unexpectedly: both Thomas and William were in their forties Matthew died at sixty-five.
It would also kill Thomas's son, the poet Matthew Arnold. The same disease had killed Thomas's father William Arnold, the Collector of Customs and Postmaster of the Isle of Wight. Three hours later he was dead, a victim of angina pectoris. on Sunday, Thomas woke with agonizing pains across his chest. His diary entry for that evening noted, “The day after to-morrow is my birthday, if I am permitted to see it”. 1 Thomas would subsequently dine with the Sixth Form boys a customary act on the last day of term.
On the evening of Saturday 11 June 1842, Thomas Arnold, the educational reformer and Headmaster of Rugby school, strolled in the institutional gardens with his head boy, William Charles Lake.
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