Archibald Orr Lang

Archibald Orr Lang (circa 1880 – 10 July 1957) was a Scottish shipping businessman and unofficial member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Career Lang arrived in Hong Kong in 1904 to join the Gibb, Livingston & Co. Since he had served on the Legislative Council on several occasions and on the Executive Council from 1922.

During his stay in Hong Kong, he was director of many public companies., including the Union Insurance Society of Canton, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, the China Sugar Refining Company, the Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company and the Peak Tramways Company. He was subsequently appointed the board of the P & O Company with Sir Harcourt Butler after the death of Lord Inchcape and Lord Kilbracken. He resigned after being appointed deputy chairman of the P. & O. Company in 1939. At the time he also held the post of deputy chairman of the B. I. Company.

Family and death He married Ellen Margaret Love in 1910 in Hong Kong. Their daughter, Shelia Macnaughton Lang, was born in Hong Kong in 1913. Their son, William Macnaughton Lang, was born in Hong Kong in 1918 and also worked for P & O in London for many years. Beverley Lang, Mrs Justice Lang, an English High Court judge, is his granddaughter.

A.O. Lang died on 10 July 1957 at the age of 77.