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...kings. All through the three-hour ceremony, the most important person there was not the King, his nobles or his ministers, but a hawk-nosed old gentleman with a cream-&-gold cope who stood on a dais as King George approached: The Rt. Hon. and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D.. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
...Lang? The seventh son of a seventh son, dour, hawk-nosed Cosmo Gordon Lang, 72, was not raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner...
Sticking close to the Best People, Cosmo Lang became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen, Oxford, and four years later, on the recommendation of Arthur Balfour, vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
Apotheosis, Last week before an audience of the world's great. Cosmo Gordon Lang achieved the biggest attainable goal of a British prelate. He crowned a King and with holy oil anointed him a demi-priest in God's service. And it was a King of whom he could be proud- dutiful, earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped...
...Still a Presbyterian is the Archbishop's little-known brother, the Rt. Rev. Marshall B. Lang, since 1935 Moderator of the Church of Scotland...