Thomas Layng
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Early life and education
Layng was the son of Dr Henry Layng of Swatow, China,[3] and nephew of Thomas Layng, headmaster of Abingdon School. He was educated first at Abingdon School (1900–06)[4] and then at Clifton College[5] (1906–11) before entering Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
Layng joined the Indian Army, and was awarded a Military Cross in the First World War. His brother George Reginald Stuart Layng was killed during the war in 1916.[6] Thomas was Brigade Major on the Afghan frontier (1919) and then involved in the campaign against the Waziris (1920 and 1923). Abandoning his military career he was ordained (1932) and became curate of Berkeley and dock chaplain at Sharpness (1933),[7] rector of Duloe, Cornwall (1934–38) and chaplain and fellow of his old Oxford College (1938).
He served in the Second World War in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department and was awarded a bar to his Military Cross at Dunkirk (1940). He was deputy Chaplain-General to the Mediterranean forces (1945) and rector of Burnaby and Nunburnholme (1946–48) and Archdeacon of York (1946–47).
Layng was chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1940–51) and awarded an MBE (1924) and CBE (1945). Latterly he served as vicar of Kemble and Poole Keynes (1950–55). He dedicated the Second World War memorial at Abingdon School chapel (1949).
His funeral was held at St Mark Cheltenham on Friday 25 April 1958.[8]
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Notes
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- ↑ Obituary. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 22 April 1958; pg. 14; Issue 54131
- ↑ Her Majesty's Household. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 6 August 1952; pg. 6; Issue 52383
- ↑ 'LAYNG, Rev. Thomas Malcolm', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 Retrieved 26 July 2014
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- ↑ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p276: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
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- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 p 783: Oxford, OUP, 1947
- ↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 26 April 1958; pg. 8; Issue 54135
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