Sir Francis Henry Laking
From LoveToKnow 1911
"SIR FRANCIS HENRY LAKING, 1ST Bart. (1847-1914), English physician, was born in Kensington Jan. 9 1847. He was educated at Heidelberg, and afterwards studied medicine at St. George's hospital, taking his degree of M.D. in 1869. He was for many years one of the physicians to the royal household, and was appointed physician-in-ordinary to King Edward VII. in 1901. He was knighted in 1893, created a baronet in 1902, G.C.V.O. in 1903, and K.C.B. in 1910. He died in London May 21 1914.
His son, SIR GUY Francis Laking, 2nd Bart. (1875-1919), English antiquary, was born in London Oct. 21 1875. He was educated at Westminster school, and later studied art, but instead of adopting this as a career he entered Christie's, art dealers, where his apprenticeship stimulated all his antiquarian tastes. He was an enthusiastic student of armour, and this led to his appointment by King Edward VII. as keeper of the king's armoury, and also to his being appointed hon. inspector of the armouries of the Wallace collection (1900). He was also responsible for the arrangement of the London museum (1914). Sir Guy Laking published the following works: The Armoury at Windsor Castle (1904); The Armoury of the Knights of St. John (1905); The Furniture of Windsor Castle (1905) and The Sevres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace (1907), besides catalogue ra.isonne of the armour at Hertford House. He died in London Nov. 22 1919.
