From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marshall Buchanan Lang
TD (1868 – 3 October 1954) was a
Church of Scotland
minister and
author .
[1]
He was born into an
ecclesiastical family in 1868.
John Marshall Lang , his father, was
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1893 and two of his brothers were bishops:
Cosmo was
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942
[2] and
Norman was
Bishop suffragan of Leicester .
He was educated at
Glasgow Academy and
Glasgow University . He was
Minister at
Oldmeldrum , then at St John's (Cross) in
Dundee from 1909 before moving to his father's former
Kirk at
Whittingehame in 1918.
[3] He was
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1935.
[4] He died on 3 October 1954.
[5]
Notes
^ Amongst others he wrote "The Story of a Parish", 1897; The seven ages of Whittingehame", 1929; "The Evolution of the Kirk", 1932; and "St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall", 1938 >
British Library website accessed 16:11
GMT 15 March 2011
^
“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London,
A & C Black , 2007
ISBN
9780199540877
^ McCraw, Ian (2000). The Kirks of Dundee Presbytery . Dundee: Friends of Dundee City Archives. p. 46.
ISBN
0-9536553-2-6 .
^
The Times , Saturday, 8 Jun 1935; pg. 11; Issue 47085; col D Scottish Moderator and Church Unity
^
The Times , Tuesday, 5 Oct 1954; pg. 11; Issue 53054; col C Very Rev. M. B. Lang Work For Church Of Scotland
1929–1950 1950–1975 1975–2000 Since 2000