Malcolm Laing
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Malcolm Laing (1762 - 1818), was a country gentleman in Orkney, Scotland.
He completed Henry's History of Great Britain, and wrote a History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms (1802). He was an assailant of the authenticity of the Ossianic poems, and wrote a dissertation on the Participation of Mary Queen of Scots in the Murder of Darnley.
He did much to improve the agriculture of Orkney. He was MP for Orkney and Shetland from 1807 to 1812.
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
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