William Laing

Born at Aberdeen, c. 1625, the son of William Laing and Elizabeth Anderson; to Scots College, Douai, 1638, but dismissed because of ill health; re-admitted (Grammar), 1st October 1642, but again dismissed, 1643, because of ineptitude at studies; perhaps a student in the Scots College, Madrid; drowned in “comitatus” of Marquis of Castel Rodrigo (Governor General of the Netherlands), 1649.