- Marshall Buchanan Lang
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The Very Rev Marshall Buchanan Lang DD, MA, TD was an eminent Church of Scotland minister and author.[1]
He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1868 [2] and educated at Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University. He was Minister at Oldmeldrum, Dundee and then his father’s former Kirk at Whittingehame. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1935 to 1936.[3] He died on 3 October 1954.[4]
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
- ^ His father was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1893 to 1894 and his brother was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942 > “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
- ^ The Times, Saturday, Jun 08, 1935; pg. 11; Issue 47085; col D Scottish Moderator and Church Unity
- ^ The Times, Tuesday, Oct 05, 1954; pg. 11; Issue 53054; col C Very Rev. M. B. Lang Work For Church Of Scotland
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