Lang, William Cosmo Gordon, (1864-1945), Baron Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Surname:	Lang
Forenames:	William Cosmo Gordon
Gender:	Male
Date:	1864-1945
Title:	Baron Lang
Biography:	ODNB link for Lang, William Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) Baron Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P162311 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P16722 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Cosmo Gordon Lang

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp and papers	Lambeth Palace Library	Lang MSS	NRA 10652 Lang See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
2	1909-28: official letters and papers	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Bp. C&P.XII	NRA 7540 York
3	1890-99: letters (21) to Sir William Anson	Oxford University: All Souls College	Anson	NRA 30791 WR Anson
4	1908-25: letters to Herbert Asquith	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Asquith	NRA 12685
5	1909-16: corresp with Samuel Bickersteth	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 2948
6	1910-42: corresp with the Bickersteth family	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng b 2093, c 6417, c6438, c 6445, d 3057, d 3060, d 3063 passim	NRA 42109
7	1917-35: letters to 1st Viscount Bridgeman	Shropshire Archives	S.R.O. 4629	NRA 34743
8	1909-44: corresp with Lord Cecil	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51154
9	1943-45: corresp with Sir Sydney Cockerell	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 52729
10	1896-1945: letters (123) to Canon AS Crawley, his wife and daughter	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 3207	NRA 39729 Lang
11	1933-43: corresp with LG Curtis	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Curtis; Eng hist b 224, c 776-877	NRA 21614
12	1901-15: letters to Sir Charles Dalrymple	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc 7228 8987	NRA 17690 Dalrymple See NRA(S)0909
13	1892-1928: corresp with Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury	Lambeth Palace Library		NRA 37975 Davidson
14	1915-42: corresp with Geoffrey Dawson	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Dawson	NRA 25619
15	letters to Lord and Lady Desborough	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	D/ERV	NRA 26768
16	1927-49: corresp with John Douglas	Lambeth Palace Library	Douglas MSS/21 ff. 226-391	NRA 36481 Douglas
17	1914-21: letters to TH Floyd	Lancashire Archives	DDFl	NRA 18108
18	1933-42: letters to Sir Edward Ford	Lambeth Palace Library		See Annual Report 1991
19	1927-36: corresp with Lord Gladstone	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 2773-74 passim
20	1936-42: letters to Seton Gordon	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.7451
21	1907-36: corresp with Lord Haldane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 5908-6083
22	1901-18: corresp with Lord Halifax (35 items)	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax papers A4/229 269	NRA 8128 Wood
23	1918-41: corresp with Arthur Headlam	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 2615, 2785
24	corresp with Sir Samuel Hoare	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Templewood Papers	NRA 42205 Hoare
25	1917-42: letters to Claude Jenkins	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 1633-34
26	1932-41: letters to Lady Londonderry	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3099/3/29	NRA 19803 Stewart
27	corresp with Lord Lugard	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Lugard	NRA 8555 Lugard
28	1933-45: letters (14) to HP Macmillan	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.25260-25273	NRA 29056
29	1921-41: corresp with Albert Mansbridge	British Library, Manuscript Collections	65254-5B
30	1929-45: letters to Sir James Marchant	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng lett c 229-300
31	1909-11: corresp with ED Morel	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	MOREL	NRA 7532 Morel
32	1929-30: corresp with JH Oldham	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Afr s 1829	NRA 26598 Oldham
33	1920-42: corresp with Edwin Palmer	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 2962-3010 passim
34	1908-45: letters to Wilfred Parker	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 2881-84
35	1915-47: letters to Richard Rawstorne	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 1803
36	1906-38: corresp with Athelstan Riley	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 2349
37	1925-41: corresp with Lord Sankey	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist a 19, c 502-56, 588, d 313-40, e 242-303, f 21-25	NRA 17016
38	1913-42: corresp with 3rd Earl of Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Selborne papers	NRA 22802
39	20th cent: misc corresp	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	Coll/401
40	1902-1937: letters to the Deans of Westminster	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	WAM series
41	c 1890: letters of T.H. Bowlby rel to	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 5058
42	early 20th cent: letters and ephemera of Hilda Neal, secretary to Archbishop Lang, rel to work for Lang and other bishops	Lambeth Palace Library	L-2014-7
43	1928: scrapbook of items (created by Mrs Rachel Nichols) rel to Lan's enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	Acc. no. 2015/39