Lagonda was founded as a company in 1906 in Staines, Surrey, by a Scottish American, Wilbur Gunn, born 1859, died 1920, a former opera singer. He became a British national in 1891 and worked as a speed boat and motorcycle engineer in Staines, England. He named the company after the Shawnee settlement " Lagonda " in modern day Springfield, Ohio, the town of his birth.
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