Peter Redford Scott Lang

Sir Peter Redford Scott Lang VD FRSE (1850–1926) was a Scottish mathematician and Regius Professor at the University of St Andrews.

[1] He was born in Edinburgh on 8 October 1850, the youngest of six children of Barbara Turnbull (née Cochrane) and Robert Laidlaw Lang (b.1808), an advocate’s clerk.

He graduated MA BSc in 1872 and began assisting in lectures in natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

His proposers were Sir Robert Christison, Peter Guthrie Tait, David Stevenson, and John Hutton Balfour.

[5] He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 1st Fifeshire Royal Garrison Artillery, a volunteer battalion based at the no 7 battery at Anstruther.