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...November 12, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York, will become Archbishop of Canterbury. Like the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, whom he succeeds, Dr. Lang is a Scotchman; also he is 64, the author of a novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh son, a brilliant though sometimes over-impassioned orator, and suspected of being the leader of that portion of the Church of England which most nearly approaches the Church of Rome. It was this last qualification in the present Archbishop of York which caused members of the League of Loyal Churchmen...
...succeed Cosmo Gordon Lang as Archbishop of York when on Nov. 12 (if Parliament approves) York becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, King George V as head of the Church of England last week nominated none of the prelates whom most of his subjects expected. He preferred William Temple, 46, Bishop of Manchester since...
Like the present Archbishop of York and Canterbury, Bishop Temple owes his swift rise, in part, to his intimacy with British royalty, but chiefly to his great ability as a leader of social work (particularly labor movements) and as a theologian. Archbishop Lang was Honorable Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom...
Appointed. The Right Rev. William Temple, 46, Bishop of Manchester, to succeed the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang as Archbishop of York...
Queen Victoria once advised Cosmo Gordon Lang, long before he became Archbishop of York, to marry. He answered: "If I have a curate who is unsatisfactory, I can dispose of him, but a wife is another matter." Last week Victoria's grandson named the wit to be the 97th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith...