Editing Cosmo Gordon Lang (section)

===Childhood and family===

[[File:Barony Church.jpg|thumb|right|alt= Drawing of a large stone building with prominent towers and pinnacles and long narrow windows. A separate building to the right has a tall pointed steeple.|The [[Barony Church]], Glasgow, to which Lang's father was appointed minister in 1873]]
Cosmo Gordon Lang was born in 1864 at the [[manse]] in [[Fyvie]], [[Aberdeenshire]], the third son of the local [[Church of Scotland]] minister, [[John Marshall Lang]], and his wife Hannah Agnes Lang.<ref name= Wilk1>{{cite odnb|last= Wilkinson|first= Alan|title= (William) Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864–1945)|id=34398}} ("Early Life" section)</ref> Cosmo was baptised at Fyvie church by a neighbouring minister, the name "William" being added inadvertently to his given names, perhaps because the local [[laird]] was called William Cosmo Gordon. The additional name was rarely used subsequently.<ref name= Lock6>Lockhart, pp. 6–8</ref> In January 1865 the family moved to [[Glasgow]] on John Lang's appointment as a minister in the [[Anderston]] district. Subsequent moves followed: in 1868 to [[Morningside, Edinburgh|Morningside]], Edinburgh and, in 1873, back to Glasgow when John Lang was appointed minister to the historic [[Barony Church]].<ref name= Lock6/>

Among Cosmo's brothers were [[Marshall Buchanan Lang]], who followed his father into the Church of Scotland, eventually serving as its [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland|Moderator]] in 1935;<ref name="McCraw">{{cite book |last1=McCraw |first1=Ian |title=The Kirks of Dundee Presbytery |date=2000 |publisher=Friends of Dundee City Archives |location=Dundee |isbn=0-9536553-2-6 |page=46}}</ref> and [[Norman Macleod Lang]], who served the [[Church of England]] as [[Bishop suffragan of Leicester]].

In Glasgow, Lang attended the Park School, a day establishment where he won a prize for an essay on English literature and played the occasional game of football; otherwise, he recorded, "I was never greatly interested in [the school's] proceedings."<ref name= Lock6/> Holidays were spent in different parts of Scotland, most notably in [[Argyll]] to which, later in life, Lang would frequently return. In 1878, at the age of 14, Lang sat and passed his [[matriculation]] examinations. Despite his youth, he began his studies at the [[University of Glasgow]] later that year.<ref name= Lock6/>