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
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Samuel Laing was a British railway administrator, politician, and writer on science and religion during the Victorian era.
Wick Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
…each burgh were added together to establish the result. Members of Parliament Election Member Party 1832 constituency created 1832 James Loch Whig 1852 Samuel Laing Radical 1857 Lord John Hay Whig 1859 Samuel Laing Liberal 1860 by-election William Keppel, Viscount Bury Liberal 1865 Samuel Laing Liberal 1868 George…
Portrait of Samuel Laing by Pieter Van Havermaet, 1872
The infant Samuel Laing as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1873