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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: affairs, and a director of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, of which he was one of the promoters, and a director from 1825. He died in his house, Ramsay Lodge, Lauriston, on 10th April 1832. Laudatory notices in the newspapers of the day show that he was esteemed and regretted by a wide circle. He was interred in the family burying-place in the New Calton Burying Ground. The movable effects in the house were valued, in the inventory, at 389, including thirteen paintings, estimated at 70, an eight-day clock, 2, 10s., two pairs silver candlesticks, 15, 15s., two silver trays, 7, 5s., teapot, etc., 8, 15s. 6d., etc., etc. A quantity of Madeira wine was valued at 3s. per bottle, port at 2s. 6d., champagne at 4s. 6d., and fourteen and a half gallons whisky at 8s. per gallon, prices deserving to be noted in comparison with those now current, eighty years later. The books in the house were fifty-seven volumes, value 15s., from which it is clear that the rare and costly literary possessions were stored in the business premises, and not admitted into the family dwelling. Likenesses of Mr. and Mrs. William Laing have been preserved, and are here reproduced. With these notices we pass from a good and WILLIAM LAING MRS. WILLIAM LAING honoured citizen, and turn to his more distinguished, but not more worthy, son David, the subject of this memorial. Mrs. Laing, David's mother, survived till 20th January 1837. chapter{Section 4n PERSONAL HISTORY 1793-1823 It is perhaps scarcely necessary to say that David Laing was a native and denizen of Edinburgh, for, as is well known, his life's work and interests centred there, and his love of Edinburgh and of everything connected with Edinburgh was a leading inspiration throughout his whole career. He was born in April 179...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217198165
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217198163
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr

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