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See also:LAING, See also:SAMUEL (1810-1897) , See also:British author and railway See also:administrator, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the rzth of See also:December 181o. He was the See also:nephew of See also:Malcolm Laing, the historian of See also:Scotland; and his See also:father, Samuel Laing (1780-1868), was also a well-known author, whose books on See also:Norway and See also:Sweden attracted much See also:attention. Samuel Laing the younger entered St See also:John's .See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1827, and after graduating as second wrangler and See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's prizeman, was elected a See also:fellow, and remained at Cambridge temporarily as a See also:coach. He was called to the See also:bar in 1837, and became private secretary to Mr Labouchere (afterwards See also:Lord See also:Taunton), the See also:president of the See also:Board of See also:Trade. In 1842 he was made secretary to the railway See also:department, and retained this See also:post till 1847. He had by then become an authority on railway working, and had been a member of the See also:Dalhousie Railway See also:Commission; it was at his See also:suggestion that the " See also:parliamentary " See also:rate of a See also:penny a mile was instituted. In 1848 he was appointed chairman and managing director of the See also:London, See also:Brighton & See also:South See also:Coast Railway, and his business See also:faculty showed itself in the largely increased prosperity of the See also:line. He also became chairman (1852) of the Crystal See also:Palace See also:Company, but retired from both posts in 1855. In 1852 he entered See also:parliament as a Liberal for See also:Wick, and after losing his seat in 1857, was re-elected in 1859, in which See also:year he was appointed See also:financial secretary to the See also:Treasury; in 186o he was made See also:finance See also:minister in See also:India. On returning from India, he was re-elected to parliament for Wick in 1865. He was defeated in 1868, but in 1873 he was returned for See also:Orkney and See also:Shetland, and retained his seat till 1885. Meanwhile he had been re-appointed chairman of the Brighton line in 1867, and continued in that post till 1894, being generally recognized as an admirable administrator. He was also chairman of the Railway Debenture See also:Trust and the Railway See also:Share Trust. In later See also:life he became well known as an author, his See also:Modern See also:Science and Modern Thought (1885), Problems of the Future (1889) and Human Origins (1892) being widely read, not only by See also:reason of the writer's influential position, experience of affairs and clear See also:style, but also through their popular and at the same 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 well-informed treatment of the scientific problems of the See also:day. Laing died at See also:Sydenham on the 6th of See also:August 1897.
LAING'S [or See also:LANG'S] NEK, a pass through the See also:Drakensberg, South See also:Africa, immediately See also:north of See also:Majuba (q.v.), at an See also:elevation of 5400 to 6000 ft. It is the lowest See also:part of a See also:ridge which slopes from Majuba to the See also:Buffalo See also:river, and before the opening of the railway in 1891 the road over the nek was the See also:main artery of communication between See also:Durban and See also:Pretoria. The railway pierces the nek by a See also:tunnel 2213 ft. See also:long. When the Boers See also:rose in revolt in December 188o they occupied Laing's Nek to oppose the entry of British reinforcements into the See also:Transvaal. On the 28th of See also:January 1881 a small British force endeavoured to drive the Boers from the pass, but was forced to retire.
End of Article: LAING, SAMUEL (1810-1897)
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