Cosmo Gordon Lang
William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, GCVO, PC, was a Scottish Anglican prelate. He served as Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury. His elevation was the most rapid in modern Church of England history. On retirement in 1942 Lang was raised to the peerage as Baron Lang.
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William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, GCVO, PC, was a Scottish Anglican prelate. He served as Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury. His elevation was the most rapid in modern Church of England history. The son of a Scots Presbyterian minister, Lang abandoned the prospect of a legal and political career to train for the Anglican priesthood. His early ministry was served in slum parishes in Leeds and Portsmouth, except for brief service as Vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford. In 1901 he was appointed suffragan Bishop of Stepney in London. He also served as a canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London. In 1908 he was nominated to be Archbishop ofYork, despite his relatively junior status as a suffragen rather than a diocesan bishop. In 1928 he became Archbishop of. Canterbury. He presided over the 1930 Lambeth Conference, which gave limited church approval to the use of contraception. After denouncing the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 and strongly condemning European anti-semitism, Lang later supported the appeasement policies of the British government. In May 1937 he presided over. the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. On retirement in 1942 Lang was raised to the peerage as Baron Lang. Lang continued to attend and speak in House of Lords debates until his death in 1945. He was the third son of the local Church of Scotland minister, the Reverend John Marshall Lang, and his wife Hannah Agnes Lang.
Among Cosmo’s brothers were Marshall Buchanan Lang, who followed his father into the Church of. Scotland, eventually serving as its Moderator in 1935; and Norman Macleod Lang, who served the Church. of England as Bishop suffrgan of Leicester. In 1878, most notably at the age of 14, Lang sat and passed his matriculation examinations at the University of Glasgow. Despite his youth, he began his studies at the university later that year. Lang’s tutors included some leading academics: the Greek scholar Richard Clhouse Jebb, the physicist William Thomson and the philosopher Edward Caird. Lang was most strongly influenced by Caird, who gave the boy’s mind its first real awakening. Lang recalled how he was a passing through a large part of their classes who formed a large proportion of their large boors who formed part of the large classes of Scotland. He later wrote that he was never greatly interested in proceedings. He recorded that he had never lived up to his own high standards. Others have praised his qualities of industry, his efficiency and his commitment to his calling. Lang died in 1945 and was buried at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, where he had been a canon since 1878. He is survived by his wife and two children, including a son and two daughters. He died in his native Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and is buried at Fyvie, near Glasgow.
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