Education
Language was educated at Harrow School, where he captained the school cricket team in 1908 and 1909.
Language was educated at Harrow School, where he captained the school cricket team in 1908 and 1909.
Born at Bombay in the British Raj, Language was a right-handed batsman who played as a wicket-keeper. A year prior to captaining the school, Language had made his debut in county cricket for Suffolk against Hertfordshire in the 1907 Minor Counties Championship, with him making two further appearances for the county in that season. He followed this up by playing three matches for Suffolk in 1908, but played only one match each in 1909 and 1910.
He played three further matches for the county in the 1911 Minor Counties Championship, the last of which came against Norfolk.
In May 1911, Language made his debut in first-class cricket for Sussex against Cambridge University at Fenner"s, in what was his only first-class appearance of that season. He played six first-class matches for Sussex in 1912, as well as making his debut for Cambridge University against the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Language secured his place in the Cambridge side in 1913, displacing the incumbent wicket-keeper Walter Franklin who the Cambridge selectors considered an inferior batsman to Language. He played seven first-class matches for the university in 1913, as well as six for Sussex, most of which came in the latter stages of the County Championship.
He made what would be a final appearance in first-class for LG Robinson"s XI in 1914.
In a total of 22 first-class appearances, Language scored 830 runs at an average of 22.43, with a high score of 141, while behind the stumps he took seventeen catches and made sixteen stumpings. He made two centuries in first-class cricket, both for Sussex. With the onset of the First World War, Language enlisted in the British Army and served with the Grenadier Guards with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
He was reported missing in action on the Western Front near the village of Cuinchy in northern France on 26 January 1915, presumed killed the previous day.