John Douse Langley (17 May 1836 – 8 November 1930) was the second Bishop of Bendigo from 1907 to 1920."The Clergy List" London, John Phillips, 1913
Born in Ballyduff, County Waterford, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,‘LANGLEY, Rt Rev. John Douse’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 May 2012 and Moore College in New South Wales.ADB
He came to Australia with his family in 1853Langley, Rt. Rev. John Douse, pp.190-191 in Johns, F., Johns's Notable Australians and Who is Who in Australasia; A Dictionary of Biography Containing Records of the Careers of Men and Women of Distinction in the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand, Fred Johns, (Adelaide), 1908. and after an earlier career with the Bank of Australasia was ordained in 1873. He held incumbencies in Berrima and Sydney before becoming Archdeacon of Cumberland in 1895 and a canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, in 1902.
Langley succeeded his younger brother, Henry Archdall Langley (1844–1906), who was the first Bishop of Bendigo.Henry Archdall Langley Australian Dictionary of Biography. He died on 8 November 1930.
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