See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID See also:

• LAING, ALEXANDER GORDON (1793–1826)
• DAVID LAING (1793–1878)
• LAING, MALCOLM (1762-1818)
• LAING, SAMUEL (1810-1897)

LAING (1793–1878)  , Scottish See also:

• ANTIQUARY

antiquary, the son of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• LAING, ALEXANDER GORDON (1793–1826)
• LAING, DAVID (1793–1878)
• LAING, MALCOLM (1762-1818)
• LAING, SAMUEL (1810-1897)

Laing, a bookseller in See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city on the loth of See also:

• APRIL

April 1793 . Educated at the Canongate See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

Grammar School, when fourteen he was apprenticed to his See also:

• FATHER

father . Shortly after the See also:

• DEATH

death of the latter in 1837, Laing was elected to the librarianship of the Signet Library, which See also:

• POST

post he retained till his death . Apart from an extraordinary See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical knowledge, Laing was best known as a lifelong student of the See also:

• LITERARY

literary and See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland . He published no See also:

• ORIGINAL

original volumes, but contented himself with editing the See also:

• WORKS

works of others . Of these, the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief are—See also:

• DUNBAR, GEORGE (1774—1851)
• DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE (1872–1906)
• DUNBAR, WILLIAM (c. 1460-c. 1520)

Dunbar's Works (2 vols., .1834), with a supplement added in 1865; See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BAILLIE, JOANNA (1762-1851)
• BAILLIE, LADY GRIZEL (1665-1746)
• BAILLIE, ROBERT (1602-1662)
• BAILLIE, ROBERT (d. 1684)

Baillie's Letters and See also:

• JOURNALS

Journals (3 vols., 1841–1842); See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• KNOX, HENRY (1750-1806)
• KNOX, JOHN (c. 1505–1572)
• KNOX, PHILANDER CHASE (1853– )

Knox's Works (6 vols., 1846–1864); Poems and Fables of Robert See also:

• HENRYSON, ROBERT (c. 1425—c. 1500)

Henryson (1865); See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew of See also:

• WYNTOUN, ANDREW OF (?1350-?142o)

Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (3 vols., 1872–1879); See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• LYNDSAY, SIR DAVID (c. 1490-c. 1555)

Lyndsay's Poetical Works (3 vols., 1879) . Laing was for more than fifty years a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and he contributed upwards of a See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred See also:

• SEPARATE

separate papers to their Proceedings . He was also for more than See also:

• FORTY

forty years secretary to the See also:

• BANNATYNE, GEORGE (1545—? 1608)

Bannatyne See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, many of the publications of which were edited by him . He was struck with See also:

• PARALYSIS, or PALSY (from Gr. aapal,6a , to relax; Wycliffe has palesy, and another old form of the word is parlesy)

paralysis in 1878 while in the Signet Library, and it is related that, on recovering consciousness, he looked about and asked if a See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of Wyntoun had been sent from the printers . He died a few days afterwards, on the 18th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October, in his eighty-See also:

• SIXTH

sixth See also:

• YEAR

year . His library was sold by See also:

• AUCTION

auction, and realized £16,137 . To the university of Edinburgh he bequeathed his collection of See also:

• MSS

MSS .

See the See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

Biographical Memoir prefixed to Select Remains of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient, Popular and See also:

• ROMANCE

Romance See also:

• POETRY

Poetry of Scotland, edited by John Small (Edinburgh, 1885) ; also T . G . See also:

• STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )
• STEVENSON, ROBERT (1772-1850)
• STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)

Stevenson, Notices of David Laing with See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

List of his Publications, &c . (privately printed 1878) .