Cosmo Gordon Lang
British archbishop and clergyman (1864-1945) · United Kingdom · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 81
William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, was a Scottish Anglican clergyman who served as Archbishop of York (1908-1928) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1928-1942). His elevation to Archbishop of York, within 18 years of his ordination, was the most rapid in modern Church of England history.
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George VI 6 moreTook part1933Named Lord High AlmonerOffice1 January 1933 to 1 January 19451928Named Archbishop of CanterburyOffice13 November 1928 to 31 March 19421923Royal Victorian ChainAward1909Named Anglican Archbishop of YorkOffice1 January 1909 to 1 January 19281901Named Bishop of StepneyOffice1 January 1901 to 1 January 19091864Born31 October 1864People around Cosmo
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The Barony Church, Glasgow, to which Lang's father was appointed minister in 1873
Balliol College, Oxford, where Lang was an undergraduate between 1882 and 1886
The Church of All Saints, Cuddesdon, scene of Lang's call to ordination in 1889
Lang on 11 January 1918, celebrating the outcome of the Battle of Jerusalem
Lambeth Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in LondonAwards
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As Archbishop of Canterbury during the abdication crisis of 1936, he took a strong moral stance, his comments in a subsequent broadcast being widely condemned as uncharitable towards the departed king.
