John Knox Laughton

Sir John Knox Laughton (23 April 1830 – 14 September 1915) was a British naval historian[1] and arguably the first to delineate the importance of the subject of Naval history as an independent field of study. Beginning his working life as a mathematically trained civilian instructor for the Royal Navy, he later became professor of modern history at King's College London and a co-founder of the Navy Records Society. A prolific writer of lives, he penned the biographies of more than 900 naval personalities for the Dictionary of National Biography.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Laughton, John Knox". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1023.
  2. ^ G. A. R. Callender; Rev. Andrew Lambert (2004). "Laughton, Sir John Knox (1830–1915)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34420. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ The Dictionary of National Biography 1912–1921, pp. 324-325, Oxford.