Cosmo Gordon Lang [SEP] position held
Cosmo Gordon Lang
William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, (31 October 1864 – 5 December 1945), known as Cosmo Gordon Lang, was a Scottish Anglican prelate who served as Archbishop of York (1908–1928) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1928–1942). During the abdication crisis of 1936, he took a strong moral stance, his comments in a subsequent broadcast being widely condemned as uncharitable towards the departed king.
The son of a Scots Presbyterian minister, Lang abandoned the prospect of a legal and
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A few of the college archives are now held by the Thoresby Society in Leeds.
Principals.
- 1876–1880: Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (formerly Vice-Principal of Wells Theological College)
- 1880–1883: William Methven Gordon Ducat
- 1883–1887: Arthur John Worlledge
- 1887-1891: George Herbert Fowler (died 1891)
- : Cosmo Gordon Lang (acting principal)
- 1891–1900: Winfrid Oldfield Burrows
- 1900–1910: James Gilliland Simpson
- 1910–1919