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词条 Geoffrey Langlands
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Military career  Teaching career 

  3. Death and legacy

  4. Recognition

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. Further reading

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}}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]

Early life

Langlands was born in 1917, with a twin brother,[9] in Hull, England, to a father employed in an Anglo-American company and a mother who was a classical folk dance instructor. His father died in the 1918 flu pandemic[10] that killed millions worldwide. His mother then took her children to her parents' home in Bristol.

She died of cancer ten years later, as soon thereafter did the children's grandfather,[10] leaving Langlands and his siblings without any living relatives. He was given a free place at King’s College, Taunton (an independent - i.e.fee-paying - school) by its headmaster, a family friend[11]. His older brother received a scholarship to an orphan school in Bristol, and a family friend helped secure positions for the other children.[12][13][14]

Career

Military career

In July 1935, Langlands completed his A Level education and began his teaching career in London, the following year at age 18.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} In September 1936, he was a mathematics and science teacher to second grade students in a school in Croydon.[14] When World War II began in 1939, Langlands joined the British Army as an enlisted soldier. In 1942, Langlands became a commando and took part in the Dieppe Raid.[12]

In January 1944, Langlands arrived in British India as an army volunteer on a troop carrier and worked three years as part of the selection board for officers training in Bangalore. Rising to the acting rank of troop sergeant major, he received an emergency commission in the British Indian Army as a second lieutenant on 3 September 1944.[15] After Bangalore, Langlands was stationed in Dehradun.[16] During the partition of the sub-continent in 1947 when India and Pakistan became independent nations, Langlands decided to move to Pakistan and was transferred to Rawalpindi where he joined the Pakistan Army.[17][18]

Teaching career

Langlands began his career in Pakistan by working as an instructor for the country's newly created army. He selected and trained officers for approximately six years.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} Upon the completion of the contract with Pakistan Army, British Army troops began to leave the country, and Langlands had to decide what to do next. Ayub Khan, then President of Pakistan, asked him to stay and teach, which he immediately agreed to do.[19]

He devoted the next 25 years to the so-called "Eton of Pakistan", Aitchison College in Lahore[20], teaching mathematics to "upper-crust young Pakistanis destined to lead in business, politics and the army"[21] and rising to be the college's dean[22] and headmaster of its prep school[23]

In 1979, the Chief Minister of the Northwest Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) offered Langlands the post of principal at Cadet College Razmak in North Waziristan.[24] IN April Langlands joined the Cadet College, which had been created only the year before[25], and served until September 1989[26]

In late 1989, Langlands took charge of the first private school in Chitral, which was later renamed Langlands School and College in his honour.[27] The school, founded in September 1988 by local Deputy Commissioner Javed Majeed,[28] grew steadily under his leadership. From 80 pupils it grew to 800, about a third girls, and many won scholarships to universities.[29]

Langlands served the school for the rest of his life. He suffered a stroke in 2008, which hastened the search for a replacement. By the time Declan Walsh reported on the man and the school in 2009, it was clear that standards had slipped, and the financial situation was parlous; the district's top official said Langlands was ""A brilliant teacher but not a good manager."[30] Eventually another principal was found, and Langlands reluctantly agreed to move to grace and favour accommodation on the grounds of Aitchison College, as it was thought that he could do more good for the Chitral school by fundraising in the capital.[10] At the age of 94 in September 2012, he moved back to Lahore.[31]

Langlands disagreed with some of the changes his successor - also a British citizen - began to put in place.[32] He attempted to prevent Carey Schofield from doing her work by asking a former pupil, Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, the Interior Minister, to deny her a work visa.[33] Eventually scores of the college staff boarded a school bus for the 1000 km drive to Lahore, where they met with Langlands and persuaded him to allow Schofield to continue her work.[34]

He turned 100 in October 2017, which was celebrated with a party which many luminaries attended, as reported in Dawn.[35][36]

Death and legacy

Geoffrey Langlands died at the age of 101 in a hospital in Lahore on 2 January 2019 following a brief illness.[37][38] The Pakistan Defence website ran an obituary calling him "revered in Pakistan and abroad for his services in the education sector"[39]. Al-Jazeera called him one of the country's "most respected educators"[40] The BBC said his "death [sent] a whole country into mourning"[41]

Many of his students, especially those from Aitchison College, rose to high places. One of those was the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan. In a tweet he paid tribute: "Apart from being our teacher, he instilled the love for trekking and our northern areas in me - before the KKH [ Karakoram Highway ] was built".[42] Other former students include Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi[43] and Aleem Khan[44]

Aaj News called Langlands "a phenomenon":
Generations of Pakistanis owe their education to him. In a career lasting 60 years, he has sought to maintain the ethos of the English public school in an alien land, long after the sun set on the empire he served. Britain has changed out of all recognition since Langlands departed its shores in the middle of the Second World War to serve with the Indian Army. By going away and staying away, his old-fashioned brand of Britishness, involving service rather than gain, has been preserved.[45]

Recognition

  • Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE; 1982)
  • Order of St Michael and St George (CMG; 2010)[46]
  • Hilal-e-Imtiaz (HI; 2011)
  • Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1987)
  • Sitara-i-Pakistan (SPk, 2004)[47]

See also

  • Ruth Pfau – medical doctor who served leprosy patients in Pakistan
  • Hal Bevan-Petman – English artist who lived in Pakistan and painted many famous Pakistanis
  • Maureen P. Lines – British social worker who worked with the Kalasha people of Northern Pakistan

References

1. ^{{cite news| title=He has been kidnapped and taken tea with princesses: a British major's life teaching in the Hindu Kush| first=Declan| last=Walsh| date=10 August 2009| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/geoffrey-langlands-pakistan-school| work=The Guardian| location=Manchester| accessdate=29 December 2014}}
2. ^{{cite news |last1=Drury |first1=Flora |title=Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46757125 |accessdate=7 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2019}}
3. ^{{cite news |last1=Reporter |first1=A. |title=Langlands turns 100 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1365420 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=DAWN.COM |date=22 October 2017 |language=en}}
4. ^{{cite news |last1=Editor |first1=T. N. S. |title=Chitral and back in a jiffy |url=http://tns.thenews.com.pk/chitral-and-back-in-a-jiffy/#.XDOefmj7S01 |accessdate=7 January 2019 |work=TNS - The News on Sunday |date=9 August 2015}}
5. ^{{cite news| title=Briton There at Pakistan’s Birth Stays at 94, a Living Textbook| first=Declan| last=Walsh| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/world/asia/formidable-pakistan-school-losing-longtime-teacher.html?_r=0| work=The New York Times| date=8 June 2012| accessdate=29 December 2014| subscription=yes}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=Chitral’s patron saint |url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/todays-news-9-216067-chitrals-patron-saint |accessdate=29 December 2014 |first=Masood |last=Hasan |work=The News International |date=24 November 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213005636/http://www.thenews.com.pk/todays-news-9-216067-chitrals-patron-saint |archivedate=13 December 2014 }}
7. ^{{cite news|title=TWS to honour Langtands services |url=http://pakobserver.net/201401/09/detailnews.asp?id=229856 |accessdate=29 December 2014 |work=Pakistan Observer |date=9 January 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209130719/http://pakobserver.net/201401/09/detailnews.asp?id=229856 |archivedate=9 December 2014 }}
8. ^{{cite web| title=Meet the 92 year-old teacher finally calling it a day| date=6 May 2010| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8664333.stm| work=BBC News| accessdate=29 December 2014}}
9. ^{{cite news |last1=Ahmed |first1=Alize |title=Campaigner of education: Major Geoffrey of the Hindu Kush retires from school |url=https://www.aaj.tv/2013/03/campaigner-of-education-major-geoffrey-of-the-hindu-kush-retires-from-school/ |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=Aaj News}}
10. ^1 2 {{cite news |title=Campaigner of education: Major Geoffrey of the Hindu Kush retires from school |url=https://www.aaj.tv/2013/03/campaigner-of-education-major-geoffrey-of-the-hindu-kush-retires-from-school/ |work=Aaj News}}
11. ^{{cite news |last1=Tweedie |first1=Neil |title=Major Geoffrey Langlands, 94, leaves his post in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province after 60 years |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9326681/Major-Geoffrey-Langlands-94-leaves-his-post-in-Pakistans-North-West-Frontier-Province-after-60-years.html |accessdate=7 January 2019 |date=13 June 2012}}
12. ^1 {{cite news| title=Major Langlands: The blue-eyed boy| first=Aroosa| last=Shaukat| url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/646750/major-langlands-the-blue-eyed-boy/| accessdate=29 December 2014| work=The Express Tribune| location=Pakistan| date=22 December 2013}}
13. ^{{cite news|title=Third World Solidarity to honour Major Langlands, hold press conference |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/punjab/09-Jan-2014/third-world-solidarity-to-honour-major-langlands-hold-press-conference |first=Saira |last=Agha |agency=Agence France-Presse |accessdate=29 December 2014 |work=Daily Times |date=9 January 2014 |location=Pakistan |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209124334/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/punjab/09-Jan-2014/third-world-solidarity-to-honour-major-langlands-hold-press-conference |archivedate=9 December 2014 }}
14. ^1 {{cite news| title=Bound by duty| first=Sonali| last=Raha| url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/bound-by-duty-1.348373| accessdate=29 December 2014| work=Gulf News| location=Dubai| date=25 February 2003}}
15. ^{{London Gazette|issue=36821|page=5523|date=1 December 1944}}
16. ^{{cite news |title=Major Geoffrey Langlands was 30 years old at Partition |url=https://www.dawn.com/in-depth/partition/story/major-geoffrey-langlands/ |work=Dawn}}
17. ^{{cite news| title=Goodbye to Major Geoffrey Langlands of the Hindu Kush| first=Neil| last=Tweedie| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/9958980/Goodbye-to-Major-Geoffrey-Langlands-of-the-Hindu-Kush.html| accessdate=29 December 2014| work=The Telegraph| date=30 March 2013}}
18. ^{{cite news| title=Former major, 93, honoured for 60 years teaching in tribal Pakistan| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8075841/Former-major-93-honoured-for-60-years-teaching-in-tribal-Pakistan.html| accessdate=29 December 2014| last=Crilly| first=Rob| work=The Telegraph| date=20 October 2010}}
19. ^{{cite news |title=Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46757125 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2019}}
20. ^{{cite news |title=Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46757125 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2019}}
21. ^{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Declan |title=He has been kidnapped and taken tea with princesses: a British major's life teaching in Pakistan's Hindu Kush |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/geoffrey-langlands-pakistan-school |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=9 August 2009}}
22. ^{{cite news |title=Major Geoffrey Langlands, former Aitchison dean and lifelong educationist, passes away |url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2019/01/major-geoffrey-langlands-former-aitchison-dean-and-lifelong-educationist-passes-away/ |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=Samaa TV}}
23. ^{{cite news |last1=Reporter |first1=A. |title=Langlands turns 100 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1365420 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=DAWN.COM |date=22 October 2017 |language=en}}
24. ^{{cite news |last1=Reporter |first1=A. |title=Langlands turns 100 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1365420 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=DAWN.COM |date=22 October 2017 |language=en}}
25. ^{{cite web |title=History |url=http://ccr.edu.pk/history-2/ |website=Cadet College Razmak |accessdate=6 January 2019}}
26. ^{{cite news |last1=Reporter |first1=A. |title=Langlands turns 100 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1365420 |work=DAWN.COM |date=22 October 2017 |language=en}}
27. ^{{cite news |title=Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46757125 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2019}}
28. ^{{cite news |title=In Memory of Maj Geoffrey Douglas Langlands |url=https://www.chitralnews.com/2019/01/05/in-memory-of-maj-geoffrey-douglas-langlands/ |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=Chitral News |date=5 January 2019}}
29. ^{{cite news |title=Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46757125 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2019}}
30. ^{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Declan |title=He has been kidnapped and taken tea with princesses: a British major's life teaching in Pakistan's Hindu Kush |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/geoffrey-langlands-pakistan-school |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=9 August 2009}}
31. ^{{cite news| title=Class, say hello to Miss Chips of the Hindu Kush| url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article1062002.ece| first=Margarette| last=Driscoll| accessdate=29 December 2014| work=The Sunday Times| date=17 June 2012| subscription=yes}}
32. ^{{cite news |last1=Newspaper |first1=From the |title=Tale of a Chitral school |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1192459/tale-of-a-chitral-school |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=DAWN.COM |date=5 July 2015 |language=en}}
33. ^{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Jon |title=Exiled head returns to Pakistan school after legendary predecessor relents |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/exiled-head-returns-pakistan-school-geoffrey-langland-chitral |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=15 February 2016}}
34. ^{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Jon |title=Exiled head returns to Pakistan school after legendary predecessor relents |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/exiled-head-returns-pakistan-school-geoffrey-langland-chitral |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=15 February 2016}}
35. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1365420|title=Langlands turns 100|publisher=Dawn|author=Staff|date=22 October 2017|accessdate=1 November 2017}}
36. ^{{cite news |title=Legendary Englishman in row over fate of Pakistan school that bears his name |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/26/legendary-englishman-geoffrey-langlands-row-over-pakistan-school |work=The Guardian}}
37. ^{{cite web |title=PM Imran Khan's teacher Major Geoffrey Douglas Langlands passes away |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/413857-pm-imran-khans-teacher |publisher=The News |accessdate=4 January 2019}}
38. ^{{cite news |title=Retired Major Geoffrey Langlands passes away at the age of 101 in Lahore |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1455053/ |work=Dawn}}
39. ^{{cite web |title=Retired Major Geoffrey Langlands passes away at the age of 101 in Lahore |url=https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/retired-major-geoffrey-langlands-passes-away-at-the-age-of-101-in-lahore.594755/ |website=Pakistan Defence |accessdate=6 January 2019}}
40. ^{{cite news |title=Major Langlands, Pakistan's favourite headteacher, dies at 101 {{!}} News {{!}} Al Jazeera |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/major-langlands-pakistan-favourite-headmaster-dies-101-190102140946143.html |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=www.aljazeera.com}}
41. ^{{cite news |title=Relic of the Raj who schooled a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46757125 |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=6 January 2019}}
42. ^{{cite newspaper | url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/413873-pm-imran-khan-saddened-over-demise-of-his-teacher-major-geoffrey-douglas-langlands | title=PM Imran Khan saddened over demise of his teacher Major Geoffrey Douglas Langlands | date=2 January 2019 | newspaper=The News International}}
43. ^{{cite web |title=Retired Major Geoffrey Langlands passes away at the age of 101 in Lahore |url=https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/retired-major-geoffrey-langlands-passes-away-at-the-age-of-101-in-lahore.594755/ |website=Pakistan Defence |accessdate=6 January 2019}}
44. ^{{cite news |title=Major Geoffrey Langlands, former Aitchison dean and lifelong educationist, passes away |url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2019/01/major-geoffrey-langlands-former-aitchison-dean-and-lifelong-educationist-passes-away/ |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=Samaa TV}}
45. ^{{cite news |last1=Ahmed |first1=Alize |title=Campaigner of education: Major Geoffrey of the Hindu Kush retires from school |url=https://www.aaj.tv/2013/03/campaigner-of-education-major-geoffrey-of-the-hindu-kush-retires-from-school/ |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=Aaj News}}
46. ^{{cite news |title=Major Langlands – a man committed to education |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/575472/ |work=Dawn}}
47. ^{{cite news|title=Major Langland, made for awards|url=http://www.chitralnews.com/News-langlandsAwards-26-Mar-11.htm|accessdate=4 November 2015|publisher=|date=2015}}

Further reading

  • [https://audioboom.com/boos/277231-bbc-s-owen-bennett-jones-interviews-major-langland#t=0m41s BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones interviews Major Langland]
  • [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/01/02/major-geoffrey-langlands-schoolmaster-wartime-commando-quintessential/ Telegraph obituary]{{subscription required}}
  • "[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/obituaries/geoffrey-langlands-dead.html Obituaries: Geoffrey Langlands, Lauded British Educator in Pakistan, Dies at 101]", Daniel Victor and Sana ul-Haq, New York Times, 3 January 2019
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