Andrew Tait

The Very Rev (or Venerable) Andrew C. Tait DD FRSE LLD was an Irish priest serving the Church of Ireland.

Life
Tuam Cathedral

In 1871 he was Rector of Kilkerrin.[1] In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.[2] In Kilkerrin he was a member of the Irish Church Missions Society.[3]

In the 1890s he was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.[4]

He was appointed a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1896.[5] He had been Archdeacon of Tuam from then until 1898. He then succeeded William Chambers Townsend as Dean of Tuam in 1898, serving until 1904.[6]

He was concurrently Rector of Moylough.[7]

Publications
  • Tasozota: The Charter of Christianity (1887)

References
  1. http://eddiesextracts.com/bnlextracts/bnl18710700.html
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  3. Moran, Gerard; Patrick, Joseph (1992). "Fr Patrick Lavelle: the rise and fall of an Irish nationalist, 1825-1886" (PDF). Durham University. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  4. Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (1890). "The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama".
  5. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Times (34811). London, England. 12 February 1896. p. 10.
  6. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Times (35634). London, England. 29 September 1898. p. 4.
  7. Laymen, Clegymen and (1884). "The churchman".


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