Definition of "latterly"

He was formerly a master in Mr. Snowden's academy, at Hull. He latterly suffered much both from disease and poverty, and terminated his life by cutting his throat at the Royal Institution.

1836 June, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 159, page 672

She had latterly been in great doubt as to what the legal effects of her marriage would be upon her position; but no notice had been taken as yet of her change of name […]

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, reprinting of 1912 Wessex edition, Barnes & Noble Classics, published 2005, page 337

[…] the youngest son of an excellent family slightly known to him, who had latterly been studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design […]

1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., pages 159–178 and 287