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See also:LAING, See also:ALEXANDER See also:GORDON (1793–1826) , Scottish explorer, the first See also:European to reach See also:Timbuktu, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 27th of See also:December 1793. He was educated by his See also:father, 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 Laing, a private teacher of See also:classics, and at Edinburgh University. In 1811 he went to See also:Barbados as clerk to his maternal See also:uncle See also:Colonel (afterwards See also:General) See also:Gabriel Gordon. Through General See also:Sir See also:George See also:Beckwith, See also:governor of Barbados, he obtained an ensigncy in the See also:York See also:Light See also:Infantry. He was employed in the See also:West Indies, and in 1822 was promoted to a See also:company in the Royal See also:African See also:Corps. In that See also:year, while with his See also:regiment at Sierra Leone, he was sent by the governor, Sir See also:Charles See also:MacCarthy, to the See also:Mandingo See also:country, with the See also:double See also:object of opening up See also:commerce and endeavouring to abolish the slave See also:trade in that region. Later in the same year Laing visited Falaba, the See also:capital of the Sulima country, and ascertained the source of the Rokell. He endeavoured to reach the source of the See also:Niger, but was stopped by the natives. He was, however, enabled to See also:fix it with approximate accuracy. He took an active See also:part in the See also:Ashanti See also:War of 1823-24, and was sent See also:home with thedespatches containing the See also:news of the See also:death in See also:action of Sir Charles MacCarthy. See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, 3rd See also:Earl See also:Bathurst, then secretary for the colonies, instructed See also:Captain Laing to undertake a See also:journey, via See also:Tripoli and Timbuktu, to further elucidate the See also:hydrography of the Niger See also:basin. Laing See also:left See also:England in See also:February 1825, and at Tripoli on the 14th of See also:July following he married Emma Warring-ton, daughter of the See also:British See also:consul. Two days later, leaving his See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride behind, he started to See also:cross the See also:Sahara, being accompanied by a See also:sheikh who was subsequently accused of planning his See also:murder. See also:Ghadames was reached, by an indirect route, in See also:October 1825, and in December Laing was in the See also:Tuat territory, where he was well received by the See also:Tuareg. On the loth of See also:January 1826 he left Tuat, and made for Timbuktu across the See also:desert of Tanezroft. Letters from him written in May and July following told of sufferings from See also:fever and the plundering of his See also:caravan by Tuareg, Laing being wounded in twenty-four places in the fighting. Another See also:letter dated from Timbuktu on the 21st of See also:September announced his arrival in that See also:city on the preceding 18th of See also:August, and the insecurity of his position owing to the hostility of the See also:Fula chieftain See also:Bello, then ruling the city. He added that he intended leaving Timbuktu in three days' See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. No further news was received from the traveller. From native See also:information it was ascertained that he left Timbuktu on the See also:day he had planned and was murdered on the See also:night of the 26th of September 1826. His papers were never recovered, though it is believed that they were secretly brought to Tripoli in 1828. In 1903 the See also:French See also:government placed a tablet bearing the name of the explorer and the date of his visit on the See also:house occupied by him during his See also:thirty-eight days' stay in Timbuktu.
While in England in 1824 Laing prepared a narrative of his earlier journeys, which was published in 1825 and entitled Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko and Soolima Countries, in Western See also:Africa.
End of Article: LAING, ALEXANDER GORDON (1793–1826)
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