Talk:Cosmo Lang

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The page included the following:

"In 1943 Lang wrote "The Mongolian Master and his Disciple-in Quest of the Little World of White by Frater Om-soc" - the author "Om-soc" being "Cosmo" spelled backwards. The 8 page one-act play was privately printed and is considered to be a spoof on occultism in general and the poet/ magician Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) in particular. Apparently Lang knew both Crowley and the author Arthur Calder-Marshall (1908- ) in whose autobiography "The Magic of My Youth" Lang was mentioned."

According to the British Library catalogue, "The Mongolian Master" was written by Cosmo Trelawney. (I have not found much on the web about this Trelawney but he appears as an editor of a collection of Crowley's writing so presumably an associate.) I have therefore deleted the passage as probably a case of mistaken identity. I would however be very interested in knowing of the source for the assertion, even if it isn't correct, or any other Lang biographical snippets. Aardwolf 18:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Full name

The official website must have made a mistake (they probably confused him with his successor). For example:

The KING has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 2nd instant, to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom upon The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Cosmo Gordon Lang, G.C.V.O., D D., late Archbishop of Canterbury, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of BARON LANG OF LAMBETH, of Lambeth in the County of Surrey. (London Gazette, 3 April 1942) Proteus (Talk) 13:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)