Dame Elvira Sibyl Maria [Vera]Laughton was born in Hammersmith On This Day 25 September 1888 and died On This Day 25th September 1959
Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Daughter of Sir John Knox Leighton , naval instructor, and his second wife, Maria Josepha di Alberti
She was educated at the convents of the Religious of St Andrew, Streatham, then (like her mother) at Tournai, and then at King's College, London.
Lesley Thomas Oxford DNB
Image by Bassano Ltd NPG x84382 © National Portrait Gallery
Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Daughter of Sir John Knox Leighton , naval instructor, and his second wife, Maria Josepha di Alberti
She was educated at the convents of the Religious of St Andrew, Streatham, then (like her mother) at Tournai, and then at King's College, London.
Lesley Thomas Oxford DNB
Image by Bassano Ltd NPG x84382 © National Portrait Gallery
