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 Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

was an Irish

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serving the

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Life

In 1871 he was Rector of

Kilkerrin Kilkerrin () is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is situated on the R364 road (Ireland), R364 regional road south of the town of Glenamaddy. The village is in a townland and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of the same name. Feat ...

. In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposer was

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. 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

Moylough Moylough ( ; ) is a rural village located in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 518. The village is in a civil parish of the same name. Moylough is northwest of Mountbellew and from Galway. It is located on ...

Publications

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

References

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