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Sir John Knox Laughton (23 April 1830 – 14 September 1915) was a British naval historian and arguably the first to argue for the importance of the subject 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''.〔G. A. R. Callender (2004) ('Laughton, Sir John Knox (1830–1915)' ), rev. Andrew Lambert, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 〕 〔The Dictionary of National Biography 1912–1921 by Oxford pages 324 + 325〕 ==Family== Laughton was born in Liverpool on 23 April 1830, the second son and youngest child of a former Master Mariner, James Laughton of Liverpool (1777–1859). In 1866 Laughton married his first wife, Isabella, daughter of John Carr of Dunfermline. They had one son and three daughters. In 1886 Laughton married his second wife, Maria Josefa, daughter of Eugenio di Alberti, of Cadiz, Spain; they had three sons and two daughters, one of whom was Vera Laughton Mathews. He died at home at Wimbledon in his eighty-sixth year on 14 September 1915. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Knox Laughton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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