| From 1917 to 1919 he was a drummer and xylophonist with Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra and recorded and performed on Broadway. |
| The Rector of Leeds started the races, which were held in the precincts of the parish church in Kirkgate. |
| The Rev Nancy Gillespie read the first Lesson, and the Epistle was read by The Rev J.W. McKegney, Rector of St Mark's Armagh. |
| Laing was Rector of Tannadice in Angus, Vicar of Linlithgow, and Rector of Newlands in the diocese of Glasgow when he was provided to the See of Glasgow. |
| Rector carried on the search, poring through thousands of index cards with the names of dead soldiers. |
| He had different careers as Rector of the University of Siena in Tuscany, interpreter, scrivener and church musician. |
