Samuel Laing was a British railway administrator, politician, and writer on science and religion during the Victorian era.
Portrait of Samuel Laing by Pieter Van Havermaet, 1872
The infant Samuel Laing as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1873
Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first
Samuel Laing (science writer)
…chairman (1852) of The Crystal Palace Company, but retired from both posts in 1855. In 1852, he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal Party candidate in Wick Burghs. After losing his seat in 1857, he was re-elected in 1859, and appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury; in 1860 he was made finance minister in…
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