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'''Thomas Malcolm Layng''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Military Cross|MC & Bar]] (23 April 1892 – 21 April 1958)<ref>''Obituary.'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Tuesday, 22 April 1958; pg. 14; Issue 54131</ref> was an Anglican soldier and clergyman who served as Deputy Chaplain-General to the Forces, [[Archdeacon]] of York and chaplain to [[King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref>''Her Majesty's Household.'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Wednesday, 6 August 1952; pg. 6; Issue 52383</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Layng was the son of Dr Henry Layng of [[Swatow]], [[China]],<ref>'LAYNG, Rev. Thomas Malcolm', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U239695, Retrieved 26 July 2014]</ref> and nephew of Thomas Layng, headmaster of [[Abingdon School]]. He was educated first at [[Abingdon School]] (1900–06)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/flipping/SchoolRegister/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#page209|title=Register|publisher=Abingdon School}}</ref> and then at [[Clifton College]]<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p276: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> (1906–11) before entering [[Balliol College, Oxford]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Layng joined the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]], and was awarded a [[Military Cross]] in the [[First World War]]. His brother George Reginald Stuart Layng was killed during the war in 1916.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/lieutenant_george_reginald_stuart_layng|title=Lieutenant George Reginald Stuart Layng|publisher=Abingdon School}}</ref> Thomas was Brigade Major on the Afghan frontier (1919) and then involved in the campaign against the [[Waziris]] (1920 and 1923). Abandoning his military career he was ordained (1932) and became [[curate]] of [[Berkeley, Gloucestershire|Berkeley]] and [[Dock (maritime)|dock]] [[chaplain]] at [[Sharpness]] (1933),<ref>[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]]1947-48 p 783: [[Oxford]], [[Oxford University Press|OUP]], 1947</ref> [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of [[Duloe, Cornwall]] (1934–38) and [[chaplain]] and [[fellow]] of [[Balliol College, Oxford|his old Oxford College]] (1938).<br />
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He served in the [[Second World War]] in the [[Royal Army Chaplains' Department]] and was awarded a bar to his Military Cross at Dunkirk (1940). He was deputy Chaplain-General to the Mediterranean forces (1945) and rector of [[Burnaby]] and [[Nunburnholme]] (1946–48) and [[Archdeacon of York]] (1946–47).<br />
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Layng was chaplain to [[King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth II]] (1940–51) and awarded an MBE (1924) and CBE (1945). Latterly he served as vicar of [[Kemble and Poole Keynes]] (1950–55). He dedicated the Second World War memorial at Abingdon School chapel (1949).<br />
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His funeral was held at St Mark Cheltenham on Friday 25 April 1958.<ref>''Deaths.'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Saturday, 26 April 1958; pg. 8; Issue 54135</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Old Abingdonians]]<br />
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