Archibald Lang Fleming FRGS (8 September 1883 – 17 May 1953)[1] was the inaugural Bishop of The Arctic[2] from 1933[3] to 1949.
Fleming was educated at Greenock Academy and the University of Glasgow.
He was in the drawing office at John Brown & Co, a shipyard in Clydebank, until 1906[4] when he went to Canada to prepare for missionary work at Wycliffe College.
Later he was Chaplain of his old theological college then Rector of Saint John, New Brunswick.
[8] John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, the Governor General of Canada, wrote to Fleming on his appointment as Bishop: Your official signature 'Archibald the Arctic' is the most romantic signature in the world and just one point ahead of 'William of Argyll and the Isles'.