(1917-10-21)21 October 1917 Kingston upon Hull, England, United Kingdom
Died
2 January 2019(2019-01-02) (aged 101) Aitchison College, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Allegiance
United Kingdom British Indian Empire Dominion of Pakistan
Service/branch
British Army British Indian Army Pakistan Army
Years of service
1939–1953
Rank
Major
Battles/wars
World War II Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
Awards
Sitara-e-Pakistan Hilal-i-Imtiaz Order of St Michael and St George Order of the British Empire
Other work
Headmaster Aitchison College Principal Cadet College Razmak Principal Langlands School and College
Geoffrey Douglas Langlands CMG, MBE, HI, SPk (21 October 1917 – 2 January 2019) was a British educationalist who spent most of his life teaching in and leading schools in Pakistan, instructing many of the country's elite. In World War II he served as a Major in the British Army, and afterwards in the British Indian Army, where he worked to keep the peace during the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947.[1] He transferred to the Pakistani Army at the birth of the country, and returned to a career in education, first of army officers. Then, at the invitation of the President, he joined the so-called "Eton of Pakistan", Aitchison College in Lahore.[2] After 25 years there, he left to lead a military high school, Cadet College Razmak.[3] He ended his career by taking on a new school in Chitral and raising it to internationally high standards; he continued to lead it into his 90s, when it was renamed in his honour Langlands School and College.[4][5][6][7][8]
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^Drury, Flora (6 January 2019). "Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation". BBC News. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^Reporter, A. (22 October 2017). "Langlands turns 100". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^Rashid, Salman (9 August 2015). "Chitral and back in a jiffy". TNS - The News on Sunday. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^Walsh, Declan (8 June 2012). "Briton There at Pakistan's Birth Stays at 94, a Living Textbook". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^Hasan, Masood (24 November 2013). "Chitral's patron saint". The News International. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^"TWS to honour Langtands services". Pakistan Observer. 9 January 2014. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^"Meet the 92 year-old teacher finally calling it a day". BBC News. 6 May 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
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