Eric Jay

{{Short description|British Anglican priest (1907–1989)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Portal|Christianity}}'''Eric George Jay'''<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp76197/eric-george-jay NPG details]</ref> (1 March 1907 – 7 February 1989) was a British Anglican priest,<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40020/supplement/6225 London Gazette]</ref> academic<ref>''Rev Canon Eric Jay.'' The Times (London, England), Thursday, 16 February 1989; pg. 18; Issue 63319</ref> and author.

Jay was educated at the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection; and ordained in 1931. After a curacy in Stockport he was a lecturer at King's College London. He was a Chaplain in the RAFVR from 1940 until<ref>[http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=96106974&mode=transcription British Military Lists]</ref> 1946 and priest in charge of St Clement Danes from 1945 until 1947. Dean of Nassau from 1948 to 1951.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory 1951/52 p675 Oxford, OUP, 1952</ref> He was Senior Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1951<ref>''Church Appointments.'' The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 26 June 1951; pg. 6; Issue 52037</ref> to 1958; Principal of the Montreal Diocesan Theological College from 1958 to 1964; and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at McGill University from 1964 to 1970.

In 1937, Jay married Margaret Webb, and they had two daughters and a son. In 1957, aged eighteen, their elder daughter gave birth to a daughter who at Jay’s insistence was adopted. Becoming Sheila Caffell, she was later one of those who died in the White House Farm murders.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Carol Ann |authorlink=Carol Ann Lee |title=The Murders at White House Farm |date=2015 |page=21 |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson |location=London|isbn=9781447285755 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zV3WCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21}}</ref>

==Selected publications== Works by Jay include:<ref>British Library catalogue, accessed Friday 30 October 2015</ref> *''The Existence of God'' (1946) *''Origen’s Treatise on Prayer'' (1954) *''New Testament Greek; an Introductory Grammar'' (1958) *''Son of Man, Son of God'' (1965) *''The Church: its changing image through twenty centuries'' (1977) ==References== {{reflist}}

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