Laing, Samuel ♂

Education

LL.D. 6.4.1893 (in absentia).

Birth/childhood

Born 12.12.1812 in Edinburgh son of Samuel Laing, Papdale, Orkney.

Career

Studied at Cambridge University - B.A. 1831.

Barrister 1837. M.P. (Liberal) for Wick 1852-1857, 1859-1860, 1865-1868. Orkney and Shetland 1873-1885. [Lawyer, politician]

Publications

Modern Science and modern thought.(London: Chapman & Hall, 1885)

A Modern Zoroastrian.(London: Chapman & Hall, 1894)

Death

Died 6.8.1897.

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