During World War II the family moved to Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. His parents were ‘far from being wealthy’ ( 24) †, but provided a conventional middle-class upbringing, having a live-in housekeeper/cook and nanny, and affording private schools for their sons. His father was an interior designer and his mother a singer and amateur pianist he had one brother. Seymour was a family name, supposed by them to be connected to the Tudor Lady Jane Seymour. He was an accomplished amateur musician (playing French horn), small-boat sailor and handyman.Īnthony (Tony) Seymour Laughton was born in Golders Green in 1927. A consummate committee man, he had a vital role in reviving the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans and promoted UK involvement in the international Deep-Sea Drilling Project. He played a significant part in the International Indian Ocean Expedition, subsequently developing a new understanding of the Gulf of Aden. He developed the first UK seafloor camera, was an enthusiastic supporter and user of the revolutionary Precision Echo Sounder and later of the GLORIA long-range side-scan sonar. Returning to the UK, he joined the National Institute of Oceanography (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences from 1973) at Wormley, Surrey, and became director in 1978. Following his PhD, he spent a year at Lamont Geological Observatory, USA, where he met many leading US workers, and became interested in deep-seafloor photography and bathymetric mapping. Following undergraduate studies at King's College, Cambridge, he joined Maurice Hill (FRS 1962) at the Cambridge Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, beginning a career in marine geophysics. Focusing on the shape of the seafloor, his work included underwater photography, ocean drilling, long-range side-scan sonar and scientific charting of the ocean floor. By using Solevaka all users are implicitly agreeing to these guidelines regardless of whether they have read them or not.Anthony (Tony) Laughton was an oceanographer who promoted the science of oceanograpy in Britain.
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