Robert Hamilton Lang

His ten siblings included John Marshall Lang later Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

He retired in October 1902,[4] when he was received by the Sultan who conferred upon him the Grand Cordon of the Order of Medjidie set in brilliants.

During his time on Cyprus Lang began acquiring antiquities, this leading to his own excavations around the villages of Dhali, in particular the site of ancient Idalion, and Pyla.

)[9] (Lang also wrote the book Cyprus: its history, its present resources, and future prospects (Macmillan & Co., 1878) based on his evaluation of the economic potential of the island.

[12] Ill health precluded his attendance at the marriage of his second daughter (Mary Alice Lang) in New York in 1911 and he died at Hampstead, London, in 1913.