Malcolm Laing

(1762-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Laing, Malcolm, 1762-1818 NRA: Laing Malcolm (1762-1818) Historian DNB: Laing, Malcolm (1762-1818), historian and advocate LBT ID: MaLaing1818 VIAF ID: 47103807 LOC ID: nr92029755	B/BAP: 1762 DIED: 1818-11-06
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Scottish advocate and historian, educated at Edinburgh University; he was Whig MP for Orkney and Shetland (1807-12). In 1805 he published The Poems of Ossian, containing the Poetical Works of James Macpherson in Prose and Verse.
REFERENCES TO Malcolm Laing: Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 17 July 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XIV. 1819 Found 1: ¶ 21 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 58 Chapter V 1814 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 Chapter VI 1814 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter X 1823