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Laughton (surname)
Laughton is a British surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alaine Laughton (born 1978), Jamaican singer-songwriter *Charles Laughton (1899–1962), English actor and film director *Charles E. Laughton (1846–1895), American politician and lawyer *Dale Laughton (born 1970), Scottish rugby league player *Dot Laughton (1913–1982), Australian cricketer *Doug Laughton, English rugby league player and coach *Eddie Laughton (1903–1952), English actor *Gail Laughton (1921–1985), American jazz harpist *Herbie Laughton (born 1927), Australian singer *John George Laughton (1891–1965), New Zealand missionary *John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), English naval historian *Michael Laughton (born 1934), British electrical engineer *Mike Laughton (born 1944), Canadian ice hockey player *Richard Laughton (died 1723), English Anglican priest and academic *Scott Laughton (born 1994), Canadian ice hockey player *Stacie Laughton, American politician *Stuart Laughton (born 1951), Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaine Laughton
Alaine is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. 1998–2004 In 1988, Alaine appeared in movie ''Clara's Heart'' alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Through the late 1990s and early 2000s, Alaine lived in the United States and did songwriting and singing back up for Rocafella artists such as Cam'ron and Freeway (rapper), Freeway. She moved back to Jamaica in the summer of 2004 to focus on her own music after working in investment banking at JPMorgan Chase, JP Morgan Chase. 2005–present In 2005 "No Ordinary Love" was her breakthrough single. She has released several hits including 'Deeper', 'Dreaming of You', 'Sacrifice', 'Rise in Love', 'Born To Win', 'Bye, Bye, Bye', and 'You are Me'. Her debut album, titled ''Sacrifice'', was released in early 2008. Her album, titled ''Luv A Dub'', was released in Japan in August 2009. ''Ten of Hearts'' was released in 2015. She has performed all over the world, garnering huge followings in many East African countries. She ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Knox Laughton
Sir John Knox Laughton (23 April 1830 – 14 September 1915) was a British naval historian 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''. 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 two sons, Leonard and Arthur, and three daughters – Elsbeth, Mary and Dorothy. In 1886, Laughton married his second wife, María Josefa, daughter of Eugenio di Alberti, of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Laughton
William Laughton (1812–7 November 1897) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly to the Free Church 1881/82. Life Laughton was born in London in 1812, the eldest son of Captain William Laughton from Orkney in Scotland. His father died of yellow fever in the West Indies in 1813, while he was an infant. His mother then moved to stay with relatives in Fife before moving to lodgings at 10 Carnegie Street in Edinburgh in 1825. From around 1826 William lived at lodgings with a Secession minister, the Rev Mr Jamieson of East Linton. Mrs Laughton died in 1837. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh from around 1830 to 1833. He worked as a missionary in St Mary's parish in Edinburgh under Rev Henry Grey from 1835 to 1837, and assisted Rev Mr Sieveright from 1837 to 1839 in Markinch in Fife.Ewing, William ''Annals of the Free Church'' He was ordained by the Church of Scotland at the newly built St Thomas's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Laughton
Stuart John Laughton (born August 19, 1951 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. He was Founder and for 13 years Artistic Director oThe Forest Festivalin Ontario's Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve. In his youth, Laughton studied trumpet with Joseph Umbrico in Toronto and became one of the original members of the Canadian Brass in 1970 at the age of 19. Laughton left the group to continue his studies with Gilbert Johnson at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1973, while still a student at Curtis, Laughton was appointed principal trumpet of La Scala Opera, by Claudio Abbado. Returning to Canada, Laughton established a reputation as a trumpet concerto soloist (with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Esprit Orchestra) and chamber musician (Laughton & Humphreys, Laughton & O'Meara, True North Brass). Laughton founded Opening Day Recordings in 1993 as a means of promoting Canadian music and musicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacie Laughton
Stacie-Marie Laughton (born ) is an American politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2020 to 2022, representing District 31 in Hillsborough County. A member of the Democratic Party, she had previously been elected to the chamber in the 2012 elections to represent Ward 4 in Nashua, but resigned her position as Representative-elect due to the surfacing of a past criminal conviction. She was also a selectwoman in the ward. 2012 election victory and resignation Laughton was the first openly transgender elected official in New Hampshire and the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature anywhere in the United States. After her election, media outlets reported that Laughton had in 2008 been sentenced to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and 3 1/2 to seven years for falsifying physical evidence. The sentences ran concurrently and were later reduced to one year in the Belknap County Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Laughton
Scott Laughton (born May 30, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain for Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Growing up in Oakville, Ontario, Laughton spent his junior hockey career playing for the Toronto Marlboros Minor Midget AAA of the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) before being drafted by the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. Following his sophomore season in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), Laughton was drafted in the first round, 20th overall, by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Internationally, Laughton has represented Canada at various tournaments including the World U-17 Hockey Challenge and IIHF World U18 Championship. Early life Laughton was born on May 30, 1994, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada to parents Craig and Bonnie. His dad coached him in hockey from the age of five to 14, when Laughton began to play major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He also captai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Laughton
Richard Laughton (1670?–1723) was an English churchman and academic, now known as a natural philosopher and populariser of the ideas of Isaac Newton. Early life Originally from London, he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was admitted as a sizar in 1680. He graduated B.A. in 1685, proceeded M.A. in 1691, and was created D.D. by mandate in 1717. About 1693 Laughton was chaplain to John Moore, the bishop of Norwich. In 1694 he was appointed tutor of his college, and in this capacity he acquired a reputation. John Colbatch, in his commemoration sermon preached in Trinity College Chapel, 17 December 1717, said of Laughton "We see what a conflux of nobility and gentry the virtue of one man draws daily to one of our least colleges". More colloquially, he was called a "pupil-monger". Among his pupils were Martin Folkes, Benjamin Ibbot, and Robert Greene. He encouraged the study of Newton's '' Principia''. In politics Laughton was a Whig. He had the backing of Simon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Laughton
Michael Frederick Laughton (born February 21, 1944) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 189 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 203 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA). He played for the NHL Oakland Seals and California Golden Seals, as well as the WHA New York Raiders, New York Golden Blades, Jersey Knights, and San Diego Mariners. Between his time in the NHL and the WHA, Laughton was sold to the Montreal Canadiens before the start of the 1971-72 season by the California Golden Seals. Not being able to make the team with an already stacked lineup, Laughton was sent down to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League and made team captain by head coach Al MacNeil. He led the team that included Larry Robinson and Yvon Lambert, future stars on the Canadiens, to the 1972 Calder Cup championship. He then signed in the WHA. After being chosen in the 1975 intra-league draft by the WHA Calgary Cowboys The Calgary Cowboy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Laughton
Professor Michael Arthur Laughton FREng (born 18 December 1934) is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, and currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at Imperial College. Early life He attended King Edward VI Five Ways, a grammar school in Birmingham, then moved to Canada. Laughton attended Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario. At the University of Toronto, he gained a BASc in 1957. From the University of London, he gained a PhD in 1965 and a DSc (Eng) in 1976. Career Laughton was formerly Pro-Principal of Queen Mary and Westfield College and Dean of Engineering of the University of London. Together with D. F. Warne, Laughton coedited a book, '' Electrical Engineer's Reference Book'', by M. G. Say that is presently in its 16th edition. As a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Laughton is currently the UK representative on the Energy Committee of the European Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Laughton
John George Laughton (2 December 1891 – 3 July 1965) was a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary. He was born in the parish of Holm in Orkney, Scotland, on 2 December 1891. In the 1948 King's Birthday Honours, Laughton was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, George III, King George III. ..., in recognition of his service as a member of the Māori Mission Department of the Presbyterian Church. References 1891 births 1965 deaths Scottish Presbyterian missionaries New Zealand Presbyterians Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Presbyterian missionaries in New Zealand New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George {{NewZealand-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British actor. He was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making an impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Broadway and then Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on notable British films of the era, including ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title character. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film hits were ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'', ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', ''Ruggles of Red Gap'', ''Jamaica Inn'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', ''The Big Clock'', and ''Witness for the Prosecution''. Daniel D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbie Laughton
Herbert Patrick Laughton, (7 February 1927 - 2 December 2012) was a country singer from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is also a member of the Stolen Generations. In 2005 he was inducted into the hall of fame at Music NT's Indigenous Music Awards. He was one of the artists featured in the ''Buried Country'' documentary and book. COUNTRY MUSIC TRIBUTE. Report by DOROTHY GRIMM. His songs have been covered by Buddy Williams, and |
