Lang, Cosmo Gordon
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Lang, Cosmo Gordon (1864–1945). Archbishop of Canterbury. Lang was a native of Scotland. After a short ministry at the university church in Oxford, he became (1896) vicar of Portsea, an important and populous parish, where he trained and deployed a large team of assistant curates. At the age of only 37 he was nominated as suffragan bishop of Stepney, in London's East End, and then promoted (1908) to be archbishop of York. Here he proved a marked contrast to the more conservative, cautious, and diplomatic Randall
Davidson, his fellow-Scot who was archbishop of Canterbury. The contrast is well illustrated by their attitudes to the Prayer Book reform of 1928. Davidson did not want it, and Lang wanted a return to the more catholic Prayer Book of 1549. Lang succeeded Davidson at Canterbury in 1928, but his work as primate was overshadowed by criticism for his part in the
abdication crisis of 1936, and the outbreak of war in 1939. He resigned in 1942 and died three years later.
Revd Dr John R. Guy
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It's that hot-air season again.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/29/2003; 700+ words
; ...Mother. Her letters to Archbishop Lang, quoted in yesterday's newspapers...letters sent in such copious numbers to Cosmo Gordon Lang, one of the chief architects of...Simpson in December 1936, Archbishop Lang added insult to injury by fulminating...
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The Church has a shameful record of appeasement
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...but of his predecessor at the See, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the House of Lords debate at...that debate of October 5, 1938, Lang even went so sickeningly far as to...predecessors in appeasing dictatorship. As Lang said of the Czechs in the Munich...
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Was this occult hypnotist behind the Abdication? Therapist 'may have pushed Edward VIII into drug addiction'.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 10/12/2003; 630 words
; ...decision to abdicate - the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, wrote to a doctor friend: 'Dr Cannon seems from the...the throne. Alex Sargent, a chaplain to Archbishop Lang, wrote in his private notes: 'Those who knew the thing...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Britain Today: Queen Mother was stunned by abdication.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 9/29/2003; 407 words
; ...unpublished letters, opened to the public by Lambeth Palace. Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942, and...divorcee, Wallis Simpson, the Queen Mother wrote to Lang about her feelings. She said: aaI feel now rather as...
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A good man in a naughty world
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 6/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Archbishops of Canterbury fail. Dr Carey quotes Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang's famous dictum: The post is impossible for one man...impossible to resolve. What do Anglicans believe? Archbishop Lang could have referred an enquirer to the catechism of the...
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Parish and belonging: community, identity and welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...weaknesses of these new parishes. The later archbishop, Cosmo Gordon Lang, drawing on experience of urban ministry in Leeds and...the Church of England. The type of parish described by Lang was certainly very different from those discussed here...
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John North - In search of Kate Adie
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 9/27/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Helmsley, in North Yorkshire. This time he was recalling Cosmo Gordon Lang, an early 20th Century Archbishop of Canterbury who...When a new hotel spoiled his favourite Highland view, Lang put a curse on it and, inexplicably, it burned down...
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Have you heard the one about the biographer and the Archbishop? It's in the Times
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...only good. The happiest relations were enjoyed between Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 until 1942, and...thought alike not because they were in cahoots (though Lang wrote to Dawson during the crisis ) but because they...
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Does the Anglican Church have an Israel problem?
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...parent body of America's Episcopal Church - was Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, who contended that "the Jews themselves" were to...By contrast, Rev. William Temple, who succeeded Lang as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, was an outspoken...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Very happy Christmas to you all... How the royal broadcast became an essential rite of the festive season.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/15/2004; 700+ words
; ...matched the charm of his first. (There was a new author, Cosmo Gordon Lang, the pompous Scot who was Archbishop of Canterbury...formidable consort. Yet it scarcely helped when Archbishop Lang drew attention to the King's stammer in a tactless...
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Cosmo Gordon Lang
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cosmo Gordon Lang 1864-1945, English churchman, archbishop of York (1908-28), archbishop of Canterbury...crowned George VI as king in 1937. Shortly after his resignation as archbishop in 1942, Lang was created Baron Lang of Lambeth.
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Lang, Cosmo Gordon
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Lang, Cosmo Gordon (1864–1945). Archbishop of Canterbury. Lang was a native of Scotland. After a short...of 1928. Davidson did not want it, and Lang wanted a return to the more catholic Prayer...
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Oxford
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...an important actor-manager, and Cosmo Gordon Lang, a future Archbishop of Canterbury...cousin of the actor-manager Matheson Lang , again made acting an acceptable...which Bourchier played Hotspur and Lang spoke a Prologue. Most of the plays...
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Archbishops of Canterbury
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...in office 1896–1902 Frederick Temple * 1903–28 Randall Thomas Davidson 1928–42 Cosmo Gordon Lang 1942–44 William Temple * 1945–61 Geoffrey Francis Fisher 1961–74 Arthur Michael...
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Sanders, George
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Templar); Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) (as Major Quive-Smith...Arabia (Moguy) (as Gordon); The Lodger (Brahm...It for You Wholesale (Gordon) (as Noble); The Light...Call Me Madam (Walter Lang) (as Cosmo Constantine) 1954 Witness...
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