Marshall Buchanan Lang TD (1868 – 3 October 1954) was a

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minister and

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. 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 and

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was Bishop suffragan of Leicester. He was educated at

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and

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. He was Minister at

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, then at St John's (Cross) in Dundee from 1909 before moving to his father's former

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in 1918. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1935. He died on 3 October 1954.

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, Tuesday, 5 Oct 1954; pg. 11; Issue 53054; col C ''Very Rev. M. B. Lang Work For Church Of Scotland''

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Alumni of the University of Glasgow 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland People associated with Dundee People educated at the Glasgow Academy 1868 births 1954 deaths {{Christian-clergy-stub