Leslie Hamilton Lang (27 May 1889 – 12 March 1974) was the fourth

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Biography

Born on 27 May 1889 and educated at

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and

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, he was

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in 1915. His first post was at St Mary's, Portsea. He was interviewed on 28 December 1916, for a commission as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces and was assessed as ‘A1 bright fellow’ and sent off to join the 58th London Division in France. In May, 1917, at Bullecourt, ‘he was struck by a rifle bullet which entered below the elbow at back of Rt forearm and passed out 2” above wrist behind fracturing and partially dividing ulna nerve’. He returned to England, and efforts to make him sufficiently fit to return to active service proved unsuccessful. He had applied for a ‘wound gratuity’ as early as September, 1917, because he felt that full recovery was impossible. But successive Medical Boards did not agree with him. A temporary gratuity of £50 p.a. was agreed in 1918 and was made permanent in 1920. When he died in 1974, the pension paid £396:00p p.a. The pension was only agreed when a medical board declared the wound ‘was equivalent to an amputation'. After the War, Lang had his hand sheathed in a black glove, changing to white for confirmations. When

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returned he was successively:

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(his second-cousin),

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;

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to Returned Soldiers in

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; and then

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of All Saints,

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. After this he was

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of the

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Mission,

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and after that

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before his elevation to the

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. Even though he had retired from Woolwich in 1947, curiously the Archbishop of Canterbury recommended him for the vacant seat of Portsmouth in 1948, because Lang was ‘an excellent preacher and a safe pair of hands’. The Prime Minister's Secretary, however, regraded Lang's health as ‘doubtful’ and 42-year-old Launcelot Fleming was appointed. A keen educationalist, Lang continued to serve the

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as an

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, Archdeacon of Winchester and a

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until his retirement in 1962; he died on 12 March 1974.''Obituary-Bishop Lang''

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Wednesday, Mar 13, 1974; pg. 18; Issue 59037; col G

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Leslie Hamilton Archdeacons of Winchester (ancient) 1889 births People educated at Repton School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Bishops of Woolwich 20th-century Church of England bishops 1974 deaths