Editing Andrew Lang (section)

== Biography ==
Lang was born in 1844 in [[Selkirk, Scottish Borders]]. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of [[Patrick Sellar]], [[factor (Scotland)|factor]] to the first [[George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland|Duke of Sutherland]]. On 17 April 1875, he married [[Leonora Blanche Alleyne]], youngest daughter of C.&nbsp;T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of ''[[Andrew Lang's Fairy Books|Lang's Colour/Rainbow Fairy Books]]'' which he edited.<ref name=Yellow>{{cite book|last=Lang|first=Leonora Blanche Alleyne|title=The Yellow Fairy Book|year=1894|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.|page=1|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28314|editor=Andrew Lang|access-date=26 October 2013}}</ref>

He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, [[Loretto School]], and the [[Edinburgh Academy]], as well as the [[University of St Andrews]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]].<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=6}}</ref> He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Lang, Andrew|volume=16|page=171}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Order of the White Rose (1886–1915)|Order of the White Rose]], a [[Neo-Jacobite Revival|Neo-Jacobite]] society which attracted many writers and artists in the 1890s and 1900s.<ref name=Pittock2014>{{cite book |first=Murray G. H. |last=Pittock |title=The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TmoKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT116 |date=17 July 2014 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-60525-6 |pages=116–117}}</ref> In 1906, he was elected [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=LANG, Andrew|journal=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=1016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1016}}</ref>

He died of [[angina pectoris]] on 20 July 1912 at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in [[Banchory]], survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews, where a monument can be visited in the southeast corner of the 19th-century section.