The Henson Journals

Cosmo Gordon Lang

Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864-1945; ODNB), archbishop of Canterbury, 1928-42. Glasgow University; Balliol Coll., Oxford; fellow, All Souls Coll., Oxford, 1888-93, 1897-28; dean, Magdalen Coll., Oxford, 1893-1901; vicar, St Mary's Oxford, 1894-96, and Portsea, 1896-1901; suffragan bishop of Stepney, 1901-08; archbishop of York, 1909-28; rival of Henson at All Souls and in the Church, especially as a high churchman who became archbishop after experience only as a suffragan bishop; never forgiven by Henson for boycotting his consecration as bishop of Hereford, not on personal grounds but as an act of treason to All Souls: Cyril Alington, A Dean's apology (1952), 423; Baron Lang of Lambeth, 1942. See also Volume 61, 77, 82, 85.

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See also Lang, John Marshall; Lang [née Keith], Hannah Agnes; Barclay [née Lang], Hannah Buchanan; note27