Samuel Laing
1812–97
Railway magnate, politician, and author. Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, 1834. Called to the bar, 1837. Secretary of the railway department of the Board of Trade, 1842. Chairman and managing director of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, 1848. Chairman of the Crystal Palace Company, 1852. Indian finance minister, 1860. Published popular accounts of science, anthropology, and human origins.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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