Andrew Tait

{{Short description|Irish priest}} {{Distinguish|Andrew Tate}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2020}} {{Portal|Christianity}} ''' Andrew C. Tait ''' FRSE was an Irish priest serving the Church of Ireland.

==Life== thumb|300px|Tuam Cathedral In 1871 he was Rector of Kilkerrin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eddiesextracts.com/bnlextracts/bnl18710700.html|title = Eddies News Extracts - bnl18710700}}</ref> In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=17 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In Kilkerrin he was a member of the Irish Church Missions Society.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5804/1/5804_3219.PDF | title=Fr Patrick Lavelle: the rise and fall of an Irish nationalist, 1825-1886 | last1=Moran | first1=Gerard | last2=Patrick | first2=Joseph | publisher=Durham University | year=1992 | accessdate=14 June 2020 }}</ref>

In the 1890s he was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B21GAQAAIAAJ&q=andrew+tait+dd+church+of+ireland |title = The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama|last1 = Buckingham|first1 = James Silk|last2 = Sterling|first2 = John|last3 = Maurice|first3 = Frederick Denison|last4 = Stebbing|first4 = Henry|last5 = Dilke|first5 = Charles Wentworth|last6 = Hervey|first6 = Thomas Kibble|last7 = Dixon|first7 = William Hepworth|last8 = MacColl|first8 = Norman|last9 = Rendall|first9 = Vernon Horace|last10 = Murry|first10 = John Middleton|year = 1890}}</ref>

He was appointed a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1896.<ref>{{cite news | title=Ecclesiastical Intelligence | newspaper=The Times | location=London, England | date=12 February 1896 | page=10 | issue=34811}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ecclesiastical Intelligence | newspaper=The Times | location=London, England | date=29 September 1898 | page=4 | issue=35634}}</ref>

He was concurrently Rector of Moylough.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YxgFAAAAQAAJ&q=canon+andrew+tait+dd+lld+frse |title = The churchman|last1 = Laymen|first1 = Clegymen and|year = 1884}}</ref>

==Publications==

*''The Charter of Christianity'' (1887)

==References== {{Reflist}}

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