Andrew Tait

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Andrew C. Tait FRSE was an Irish priest serving the Church of Ireland.

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Life

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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]

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References

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  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 . No. 34811. London, England. 12 February 1896. p. 10.
  6. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Times . No. 35634. London, England. 29 September 1898. p. 4.
  7. Laymen, Clegymen and (1884). "The churchman".