# Eric Jay

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{{Short description|British Anglican priest (1907–1989)}}
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{{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](/source/Anglican) priest,<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40020/supplement/6225 London Gazette]</ref> academic<ref>''Rev Canon Eric Jay.'' [The Times](/source/The_Times) (London, England), Thursday, 16 February 1989; pg. 18; Issue 63319</ref> and author.

Jay was educated at the [University of Leeds](/source/University_of_Leeds) and the [College of the Resurrection](/source/College_of_the_Resurrection); and [ordained](/source/ordained) in 1931. After a [curacy](/source/Curate) in [Stockport](/source/Stockport) he was a lecturer at [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London). He was a Chaplain in the [RAFVR](/source/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](/source/priest_in_charge) of [St Clement Danes](/source/St_Clement_Danes) from 1945 until 1947. [Dean](/source/Dean_(religion)) of [Nassau](/source/Nassau%2C_Bahamas) from 1948 to 1951.<ref>[Crockford's Clerical Directory](/source/Crockford's_Clerical_Directory) 1951/52 p675 [Oxford](/source/Oxford), [OUP](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 1952</ref> He was [Senior Chaplain](/source/Chaplain) to the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Geoffrey_Fisher) from 1951<ref>''Church Appointments.'' [The Times](/source/The_Times) (London, England), Tuesday, 26 June 1951; pg. 6; Issue 52037</ref> to 1958; [Principal](/source/Principal_(academia)) of the [Montreal Diocesan Theological College](/source/Montreal_Diocesan_Theological_College) from 1958 to 1964; and [Dean](/source/Dean_(academia)) of the [Faculty](/source/Faculty_(academic_staff)) of [Divinity](/source/Divinity_(academic_discipline)) at [McGill University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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)
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