John Knox Laughton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Knox Laughton

British naval historian

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1830

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Sep-1915

Profession: historian, military historian, non-fiction writer

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.