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Malcolm Laing (1762–1818)
Laing, Malcolm (lāng). A Scotch lawyer and historian; born in the Island of Mainland, Orkneys, in 1762; died in the Orkneys, Nov. 1818. He was a lawyer by profession, and later a member of Parliament, but devoted himself principally to historical investigation. He wrote a continuation of Henry’s ‘A History of Great Britain’ (1785), and ‘History of Scotland’ (2 vols., 1800), which may be regarded as supplementary to Dr. Robertson’s History. In the preliminary dissertation he presents an elaborate argument to prove Queen Mary’s participation in the murder of Darnley.