Lagonda is a British luxury car marque, founded as a company in 1906 in Staines, Middlesex by a former opera singer from Ohio, but of Scottish ancestry,[1] named Wilbur Gunn (1859–1920).[2] He named the company after a river near the town of his birth, Springfield, Ohio, United States.[3][4] The marque has been owned by Aston Martin since 1947.