Arthur James Tait (8 November 1872 – 3 April 1944) was an eminent Anglican priest and author.Among others he wrote "Christ and the Nations; Lecture Outlines on the Articles"; "The Heavenly Session of Our Lord"; "Christus Redemptor; The Prophecy of Micah: The Nature and Functions of the Sacraments"; "At the King’s Table"; "Sacrament and Presence"; and "Charles Simeon and his Trust in the first half of the twentieth century" British Library web site accessed 8 June 2016 13:03 GMT‘TAIT, Rev. Arthur James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 June 2016
Tait was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Merchant Taylors' School, London; St John's College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. After a curacy at Holy Trinity Church, Eastbourne he was Principal of St Aidan's College, Birkenhead from 1901 until 1907; and then of Ridley Hall, Cambridge from 1908issuu to 1927.Art UK He was a Canon Residentiary of PeterboroughNPG from 1924 untilLondon Gazette his death.
His father in law was The Rt Rev. Thomas Wortley Drury, D.D.Wordpress His daughter Margaret married the university administrator Bertrand Hallward.
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