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See also:LAING, See also:DAVID (1793–1878) , Scottish See also: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 Laing, a bookseller in See also:Edinburgh, was See also:born in that See also:city on the loth of See also:April 1793. Educated at the Canongate See also:Grammar School, when fourteen he was apprenticed to his See also:father. Shortly after the See also:death of the latter in 1837, Laing was elected to the librarianship of the Signet Library, which See also:post he retained till his death. Apart from an extraordinary See also:general See also:bibliographical knowledge, Laing was best known as a lifelong student of the See also:literary and See also:artistic See also:history of See also:Scotland. He published no See also:original volumes, but contented himself with editing the See also:works of others. Of these, the See also:chief are—See also:Dunbar's Works (2 vols., .1834), with a supplement added in 1865; See also:Robert See also:Baillie's Letters and See also:Journals (3 vols., 1841–1842); See also:John See also:Knox's Works (6 vols., 1846–1864); Poems and Fables of Robert See also:Henryson (1865); See also:Andrew of See also:Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (3 vols., 1872–1879); See also:Sir David See also: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 See also:separate papers to their Proceedings. He was also for more than See also:forty years secretary to the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club, many of the publications of which were edited by him. He was struck with See also: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, in his eighty-See also:sixth See also:year. His library was sold by See also:auction, and realized £16,137. To the university of Edinburgh he bequeathed his collection of See also:MSS.
See the See also:Biographical Memoir prefixed to Select Remains of See also:Ancient, Popular and See also:Romance See also:Poetry of Scotland, edited by John Small (Edinburgh, 1885) ; also T. G. See also:Stevenson, Notices of David Laing with See also:List of his Publications, &c. (privately printed 1878).
End of Article: LAING, DAVID (1793–1878)
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