| Description | Reginald Samuel Lang was born in Exeter on 6th January 1893. He was the son of Samuel Lang, a wood sawyer, and his wife Edith Sarah née Coombes. Between 1901 and 1911, the family moved from Devon to Tonyrefail where Samuel Lang was employed in a colliery. In 1911, Reginald Samuel Lang aged 18 was a student and still living at home. His brother Frederick William Lang aged 15 was already working in a colliery.
Reginald Samuel Lang married Edith Myfanwy Jones in 1922, somewhere in the Narberth Registration District, and they had one child - Margaret E Lang - in 1926 when they were living in Kent. Mr Lang studied at the universities of Oxford, Wales and London and was employed at Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone before moving to Haverfordwest in 1927. His studies were interrupted by the First World War and, after spending two years in "attested non-military service", he was finally demobilised in October 1919 when serving as a Lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment. Mr Lang died in 1959 and Mrs Lang in 1995, both in Haverfordwest. Miss Lang, having taught at Cheney Girls' School in Oxford, retired to Pembrokeshire and died recently.
Edith Myfanwy Jones was born in Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, in 1895, the daughter of William Jones, a blacksmith in a quarry, and his wife Martha. Her brother Byron Addison Jones became Vicar of Yerbeston and her uncle Owen Jones Thomas (1846-1929) was Vicar of Llandissilio for many years. When Rev Owen Jones Thomas died in 1929, he left his house - Parson's Lodge, Clynderwen - to his unmarried niece (Edith's sister) Ellen Anne Jones. |