Rev. Gavin Lang was born on July 21, 1835, in Glassford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He was a clergyman. He served as Assistant Minister at Sandyford, Glasgow (1864), Minister at Fyvie in Aberdeenshire (1865), Minister at Glassford in Lanarkshire (1870), Minister at St. Andrew's Church in Montreal, Canada (1870-1882), and Minister of the Gospel at Inverness, Scotland.

In 1865, he married Frances Mary Corbet (1835–1920). He died on June 14, 1919, in Inverness, Highland, Scotland.

William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, was born on October 31, 1864, in Fyvie Manse, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish Anglican clergyman. He was educated at the University of Glasgow (M.A., 1882) and Balliol College, Oxford (1886). In 1887, he began his studies for the English Bar and in 1888, he was elected to an All Souls Fellowship. In 1889, after attending evening service at the theological college in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, he renounced his political ambitions and applied to Cuddesdon College. In 1890, he was ordained as a deacon and served in slum parishes in Leeds and Portsmouth. In 1901, he was appointed suffragan Bishop of Stepney in London, where he continued his work among the poor. He also served as a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. In 1909, he was appointed Archbishop of York at the age of 44 and was seated at York Minster, York. In addition to his diocesan responsibilities for York, he became head of the entire Northern Province and a member of the House of Lords. He spoke out on various social and economic issues and supported improved working conditions. He voted against the 1914 Irish Home Rule Bill and opposed the liberalization of the divorce laws. In 1923, King George V awarded him the Royal Victorian Chain, and in 1926, he baptized Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. In 1928, he became Archbishop of Canterbury. Throughout the 1930s, Lang became a strong supporter of the government's policy of appeasing the European dictators. He had preached before Queen Victoria and was close to the royal family during the period leading to the abdication of Edward VIII. He resigned in 1942. Upon his retirement, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lang of Lambeth in the County of Surrey. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Oxford University in 1901. He wrote several books, e.g., "The Young Clanroy" (1897), "The Miracles of Jesus" (1901), "The Opportunity of the Church of England" (1905), "Thoughts on Some of the Parables of Jesus" (1909), "The Unity of the Church of England" (1925), and "The Oppression of Religion in Russia" (1930).

He died on December 5, 1945, in Richmond, Surrey, England.

Albert Thomas Lane was born in 1849 in Hertfordshire, England.

He immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, in 1871 and found employment with the Montreal Warehousing Company, where he stayed until his death. He also worked for an importer of sporting equipment and began bringing bicycles and tricycles from England to Canada for resale. In 1874, He brought the first high-wheel bicycle to Montreal. He was one of the three original founders of the first bicycle club in Canada, the Montreal Bicycle Club (MBC), founded in 1878. In 1894, he became President of the Canadian Wheelmen’s Association (CWA). Montreal won the bid to host the CWA annual meet, and to promote the event, Lane organized a Sarnia to Montreal relay ride. He had a shop on Ste. Catherine Street, near the Northeast corner of Peel, where he sold bicycles and bicycle parts in Montreal. He was a lifetime member of MBC and the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (MAAA).

In 1875, he married Maria Alicia Smyth (1853–1942). He died on January 12, 1916, in Outremont, Montreal, Quebec.