John Knox Laughton
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1830 – 1915
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Who was John Knox Laughton?
Sir John Knox Laughton 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.
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- Born
- Apr 23, 1830
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Died
- Sep 14, 1915
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on July 23, 2013
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