 On his retirement Lang was raised to the peerage as Baron Lang of Lambeth in the County of Surrey . He was thus able to remain in the House of Lords , where he attended regularly and contributed to debates . He worried about money , despite a pension of £ 1 @,@ 500 per year ( approximately £ 63 @,@ 000 in 2016 ) , a large rent @-@ free house at Kew , and some generous cash gifts from well @-@ wishers . In 1943 he spoke in the House of Lords in support of the Beveridge Report on social insurance , and on 9 February 1944 he reiterated his earlier opposition to obliteration bombing . In October 1944 Lang was greatly distressed by the sudden death of William Temple , his successor at Canterbury , writing : " I don 't like to think of the loss to the Church and Nation ... But ' God knows and God reigns ' . " 
