Samuel Laing
| Samuel Laing MP, FGS | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1812 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1897 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
6 Kensington Gardens Terrace Bayswater [1865] 1 Eastern Terrace, Brighton [A6:2]{1872} 36 Wilton-crescent, SW [1879] 5 Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park, NW [1881] Crook, Kirkwall, NB [1888] 19 Brunswick Terrace, Brighton [1894] | ||||||||||||
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political business | ||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
A5 9 John Anderson., 3 Apr. 1866 – doubts as to Samuel Laing’s reliability on the Keiss site, 8 pp.; see ‘On some ancient shell-mounds and graves in Caithness’, JASL, 1864, pp. xx-xxxviii in Anthrop. Rev. vol. 3, 1865
death noted in report of the council for 1897
Notes From Elsewhere
Samuel Laing, (12 December 1812 – 6 August 1897), was a British railway administrator, politician, and influential writer on science and religion during the Victorian era.
He was born at Edinburgh on 12 December 1810. He was the nephew of Malcolm Laing, the historian of Scotland; and his father, also called Samuel Laing (1780–1868), was a well-known author, whose books on Norway and Sweden attracted much attention. Samuel Laing the younger entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1827, and after graduating as Second Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, was elected a fellow.[1] He remained at Cambridge temporarily as a coach, before being called to the bar in 1837, and becoming private secretary to Henry Labouchere, later 1st Baron Taunton, who was then the President of the Board of Trade.
Publications
External Publications
Journal of a residence in Norway during the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, 1836
A tour in Sweden in 1838, 1839
In this work, the author strongly criticises the Swedish-Norwegian union, implying that Norway ought to strive for independence. This caused a comment from the Swedish-Norwegian ambassador in London, M. Björnstierna, On the moral state and political union of Sweden and Norway, 1840.
Notes of a traveller, 1842
Covers journeys in Prussia and other countries. The preface contains a response to Björnstierna.
Heimskringla. The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, 3 vols., 1844
English translation of the 13th-century Icelandic work by Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla.
House Publications
ESL
On certain remains of the stone period from Caithness Read 13 dec 1864
ASL
on a kist from Keiss Read 6 dec 1864