Laing, Francis

Education

Student United College 1794-1795 Log. & Rhet. (Secondar).

Birth/childhood

Born 1.5.1773 son of Alexander Laing, architect, Edinburgh and Charlotte Polson.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - arts student 1789-1790 & 1792-1793, Glasgow University - 1795-1796 Physics, Snell exhibitioner 1796, Oxford University - matriculated 1795, B.A. 1799, M.A. 1801. Took Holy Orders. Went to Malta 1803 and soon Secretary to the Government to 1814. Rector Llanmaes 1814-1824. Rector Humsaugh, Northumberland 1820-1832. [Minister]

Death

Died Mythe, Gloucester 24.11.1861.

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