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Samuel Laing (1812–1897)
Laing, Samuel (lāng). An English statesman and philosophical writer; born at Edinburgh in 1812; died at Sydenham, Aug. 6, 1897. He was for many years prominent in Parliament, and from 1861 to 1863 held the office of finance minister to India. Of his works, ‘Modern Science and Modern Thought’ (1886), and ‘A Modern Zoroastrian’ (1887), occasioned some discussion. His other publications include: ‘India and China’ (1863); ‘A Sporting Quixote; or the Life and Adventures of the Hon. Augustus Fitzmuddle’ (1886); ‘The Antiquity of Man’ (1890); ‘Human Origins.’