Janus: David Laing: Bibliographical Notes and Specimens

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MS Add.6211	Address to Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend
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MS Add.6218-6220, 6222	Alexander Gordon Wynch Murray: Papers
MS Add.622	J[ohn] O'D[onovan]: Notes on the scholia to the martyrology of Oengus
MS Add.6221	David Laing: Bibliographical Notes and Specimens
MS Add.6223	Hugh Stanley Wilson: Correspondence
MS Add.6224-6225	William Cole: Papers on Cambridgeshire Landholdings
MS Add.6226-6227	David Lewis: Poems
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David Laing: Bibliographical Notes and Specimens

Title	David Laing: Bibliographical Notes and Specimens
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.6221
Creator	Laing, David, 1793-1878
Covering Dates	1858 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 folder
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

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David Laing (1793-1878), antiquary, was born in Edinburgh on 20 April 1793, son of William Laing, an Edinburgh bookseller. He attended Canongate Grammar School and Edinburgh University, before becoming a partner in his father's business in 1821. He was secretary of the Bannatyne Club, 1823-1861, and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1826. He was made librarian of the Signet Library in 1837. Laing edited old Scottish ballads, metrical romances and many antiquarian works. He died at Portobello on 18 October 1878.

Bibliographical notes and specimens compiled by Laing while librarian of the Signet Library, Edinburgh.

Purchased 1920.

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Signet Library, Edinburgh

Laing, David (1793-1878) antiquary and librarian

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