Background
He was the third son of Cornelius Langton of Kirkham, Lancashire, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of the Review Zachary Taylor, headmaster of the grammar school there.
He was the third son of Cornelius Langton of Kirkham, Lancashire, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of the Review Zachary Taylor, headmaster of the grammar school there.
He was educated at Kirkham Grammar School, and, on being elected to a Barker exhibition, went to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts on 18 December 1721, and Master of Arts
He was baptised at Kirkham on 24 September 1698. on 10 June 1724. After his ordination he removed to Ireland, where his kinsman, Doctor Robert Clayton, was bishop of Killala, and afterwards of Clogher. He held preferments in the diocese of Killala, and was chaplain between 1746 and 1761 to the Earls of Harrington.
He held the prebend of Killaraght from 5 July 1735 until 1782, and that of Errew from 6 December 1735 until his death.
In November 1761 Langton returned to England, and was present at Kirkham Church in 1769 at the recantation of William Gant, late a Roman Catholic priest. He died at Oxford on 1 February 1786.