[35][36] Langley served on the Caulfield Grammar School Council (the company's governing body) from its foundation in 1931 until 1945.
[38] As the Vicar of St Mary's, Langley had been giving the pupils of the highly respected Shelford Girls' School weekly lessons in religious instruction for quite a number of years.
[39] The school, established in 1898 (in Glen Eira Road) by Emily Dixon, was relocated to 77 Allison Road, Elsternwick by its second principal, Dora Mary Petrie Blundell (1865-1943),[40][41][42] who served as the school's second principal from 1904 to 1921.
In 1923, Langley was responsible for the relocation of the school from 77 Allison Road, Elsternwick to "Helenslea" in Hood Crescent, Caulfield North — adjacent to St Mary's Church — the re-establishment of it as the Shelford Girls' Grammar School, and the appointment of Miss Ada Mary Thomas as its head mistress.
As Vicar of St. Mary's, he was also responsible for the foundation of St. Margaret's Anglican Church, in Ripley Grove, Caulfield, in 1923.
[56] Over his lifetime, he was quite outspoken on a wide range of political and social issues:[57] He died on 28 November 1968, at Hawthorn,[59] and was cremated.