Lang, Peter Redford Scott ♂

Education

Professor of Mathematics, St Andrews University 8.11.1879-30.9.1921 (retired).

Birth/childhood

Born 8.10.1850 son of Robert Laidlaw Lang, writer, Edinburgh and Barbara Cochrane.

Career

Studied Edinburgh University - M.A. 1872.

Assistant to Professor Tait, Edinburgh.

Professor of Mathematics, St Andrews University 8.11.1879-30.9.1921 (retired). [University professor]

Instituted University Dines 1887-1878. [See account of Scott Lang Dinners in University of St Andrews' Computer Science Blog, May 3, 2015].

Active in Territorial Army and Conservative politics. [Soldier, politician]

F.R.S.E. 1878. Knighted 1921.

Death

Died St Andrews 5.7.1926.

Sources

• College Echoes 1894/95 p131, 1909/10 p83
• Fife News Almanac 1927
• Deaths Reg. St Andrews 1926
• Peter Redford Scott Lang in MacTutor.