Lang Family History & Genealogy

Anna Margaretha (Lang) Grenville was born in 1774, and died at age 19 years old on December 24, 1794. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anna Margaretha (Lang) Grenville.

William Lang of Merino, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia was born circa 1816 in Little Petherick, Cornwall County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 60 years old in 1876 in Merino, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia.

Wilmet (Harris) Lang of Merino, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia was born on August 23, 1818 in Probus, Cornwall County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 61 years old in 1879 in Merino, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia.

Alexander Lang of Tooborac, Mitchell Shire County, VIC Australia was born on December 19, 1837 in Glasgow, Glasgow City County, Scotland United Kingdom, and died at age 72 years old on October 25, 1910 in Tooborac, Mitchell Shire County, VIC Australia.

Mary (Sinclair) Lang of Walhalla, VIC Australia was born on April 26, 1838 in Argyll and Bute Council County, Scotland United Kingdom, and died at age 52 years old on July 20, 1890 in Walhalla, VIC Australia.

Mary (Lang) Barr was born in 1838, and died at age 65 years old on March 21, 1904 in Newtown, Greater Geelong City County, VIC Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary (Lang) Barr.

Richard Lang was born in 1838, and died at age 81 years old on February 11, 1920. Richard Lang was buried at Payneham Cemetery 56 Marian Rd, in Payneham, The City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters County, SA Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Lang.

Mary Caroline Lang was born in 1841, and died at age 73 years old in 1914. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Caroline Lang.

Andrew Lang From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search For other people named Andrew Lang, see Andrew Lang (disambiguation). Andrew Lang FBA Andrew Lang.jpg Born 31 March 1844 Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland Died 20 July 1912 (aged 68) Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Occupation Poet, novelist, literary critic and anthropologist. Alma mater University of St Andrews Balliol College, Oxford Period 19th century Genre Children's literature Spouse Leonora Blanche Alleyne (m. 1875) Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Biography Lang was born in 1844 in Selkirk, Scottish Borders. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first Duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School, and the Edinburgh Academy, as well as the University of St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. He was a member of the Order of the White Rose, a Neo-Jacobite society which attracted many writers and artists in the 1890s and 1900s. In 1906, he was elected FBA. He died of angina pectoris on 20 July 1912 at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews, where a monument can be visited in the south-east corner of the 19th century section. "Rumpelstiltskin", from Lang's Fairy Tales Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John Ferguson McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor. The earliest of his publications is Custom and Myth (1884). In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms. Lang's Making of Religion was heavily influenced by the 18th century idea of the "noble savage": in it, he maintained the existence of high spiritual ideas among so-called "savage" races, drawing parallels with the contemporary interest in occult phenomena in England.His Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. In the preface of the Lilac Fairy Book he credits his wife with translating and transcribing most of the stories in the collections. Lang examined the origins of totemism in Social Origins (1903). Psychical research Lang was one of the founders of "psychical research" and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He served as President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1911. Lang extensively cited nineteenth- and twentieth-century European spiritualism to challenge the idea of his teacher, Tyler, that belief in spirits and animism were inherently irrational. Lang used Tyler's work and his own psychical research in an effort to posit an anthropological critique of materialism. Classical scholarship See also: English translations of Homer § Lang He collaborated with S. H. Butcher in a prose translation (1879) of Homer's Odyssey, and with E. Myers and Walter Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both still noted for their archaic but attractive style. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Study of Greek found in Essays in Little (1891), Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; Homer and his Age (1906); and "Homer and Anthropology" (1908). Historian Andrew Lang at work Lang's writings on Scottish history are characterised by a scholarly care for detail, a piquant literary style, and a gift for disentangling complicated questions. The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901) was a consideration of the fresh light thrown on Mary, Queen of Scots, by the Lennox manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, approving of her and criticising her accusers. He also wrote monographs on The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) and James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902). The somewhat unfavourable view of John Knox presented in his book John Knox and the Reformation (1905) aroused considerable controversy. He gave new information about the continental career of the Young Pretender in Pickle the Spy (1897), an account of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, whom he identified with Pickle, a notorious Hanoverian spy. This was followed by The Companions of Pickle (1898) and a monograph on Prince Charles Edward (1900). In 1900 he began a History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1900). The Valet's Tragedy (1903), which takes its title from an essay on Dumas's Man in the Iron Mask, collects twelve papers on historical mysteries, and A Monk of Fife (1896) is a fictitious narrative purporting to be written by a young Scot in France in 1429–1431.[ Other writings Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884), Grass of Parnassus (1888), Ban and Arrière Ban (1894), New Collected Rhymes (1905). Lang was active as a journalist in various ways, ranging from sparkling "leaders" for the Daily News to miscellaneous articles for the Morning Post, and for many years he was literary editor of Longman's Magazine; no critic was in more request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new editions or as editor of dainty reprints. He edited The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896), and was responsible for the Life and Letters (1897) of JG Lockhart, and The Life, Letters and Diaries (1890) of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886), Letters to Dead Authors (1886), Letters on Literature (1889), etc.

Henry Harris Lang of Merino, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia was born on August 17, 1847 in Westminster, Greater London County, England United Kingdom to William Lang and Wilmet Harris Lang. He had siblings William Pryor Lang, George Lang, John Pryor Lang, and Mary Ann Lang. He married Elizabeth Jane (Peters) Lang in 1872, and had children Annie Wilmet Lang, Edith Jane (Lang) Lowry, William John Peters Lang, Walter Henry Harris Lang, Gertrude Mary (Lang) Wheeler, Clara Elizabeth (Lang) Lamont, Linette Ennis (Lang) Mcpherson, and Alfred Alec Mair Lang. Henry Lang died at age 63 years old on July 22, 1911 in Merino, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia.

William Pryor Lang of Gymbowen, West Wimmera Shire County, VIC Australia was born on February 18, 1850 in Westminster, Greater London County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 35 years old in 1885 in Gymbowen, West Wimmera Shire County, VIC Australia.

Elizabeth Jane (Peters) Lang of Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1851 in Merino, Glenelg Shire County, and died at age 71 years old on January 6, 1923 in Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack Shire County.