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 WORKS BY Malcolm Laing: “Roscoe's Leo the Tenth” in Edinburgh Review. Found 1.
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