Andrew C. Tait

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

was an

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serving the

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Life

In 1871 he was Rector of

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. In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposer was

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, he did important ...

. In Kilkerrin he was a member of the Irish Church Missions Society. In the 1890s he was a member of the

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. He was appointed a

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in 1896. He had been

Archdeacon of Tuam The Archdeacon of Tuam ( ) was a post held in the Diocese of Tuam, from the creation of the diocese at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111. Background In the Catholic Church, the post of archdeacon, generally a priest, was once one of great impo ...

from then until 1898. He then succeeded William Chambers Townsend as

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in 1898, serving until 1904. He was concurrently Rector of

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Publications

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

References

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