Stuart Laing (born 22 July 1948)[1] is a British former diplomat and was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 2008 to 2018.
[3] He was appointed Master of his old college Corpus Christi on 1 October 2008 succeeding Oliver Rackham,[4] and retired from that position in August 2018.
He researches and writes on Arab and East African history and in 2012 he published, jointly with Robert Alston, Unshook till the end of time, a book on the history of Britain's relationship with Oman.
[8] In 2017 he published a biography of the ivory trader Tippu Tip (Hamed bin Mohammed al-Murjabi).
[9][10] Laing is a keen amateur musician; he plays keyboard instruments and the oboe.