1942 Cosmo Gordon Lang, archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 until his retirement in 1942, is created Baron Lang of Lambeth and is granted a home for life at Kew by King George VI. Lang was an influential and versatile Anglican priest who, as archbishop of Canterbury, was a close friend and adviser to King George VI. He was also briefly suspected of having conspired to bring about the abdication in 1936 of King Edward VIII, who married the U.S. divorcee Wallis Simpson. Public opinion later acquitted him of any wrongdoing during the intrigue. (Britannica)