# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-laughton-mathews
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:23:22.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-laughton-mathews"
name: "Vera Laughton Mathews"
slug: "vera-laughton-mathews"
description: "Dame Elvira Sibyl Marie Mathews,, known as Vera Laughton Mathews, was a British military officer and administrator. She was the second Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), serving from its reformation in 1939 until 1946."
tagline: "British military officer and administrator (1888–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MRS_WINSTON_CHURCHILL_VISITS_WRNS_HEADQUARTERS._SEPTEMBER_1941%2C_QUEEN_ANNE'S_MANSIONS._MRS_V_LAUGHTON_MATHEWS%2C_DIRECTOR%2C_WRNS%2C_INTRODUCED_MRS_CHURCHILL_TO_EACH_OFFICER_IN_CHARGE_OF_THE_VARIOUS_DEPARTMENTS_AT_TH_A5490.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1888-09-25"
deathDate: "1959-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.011556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Vera Laughton Mathews"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Laughton_Mathews"
    title: "Vera Laughton Mathews"
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    title: "Vera Laughton Mathews"
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    title: "Мэтьюс, Вера Лафтон"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%81"
    title: "Вера Лафонт Метьюс"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7920793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump