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  Archibald Campbell Tait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archibald Campbell Tait (21 December 1811 – 3 December 1882) was an Archbishop of Canterbury.
On the other hand, Tait was not successful in dealing with matters which called for the higher gifts of a ruler, and especially in his relations with (a) the liberal trend in modern thought, and (b) the Catholic revival.
Tait was a Churchman by conviction; but although the work of his life was all done in England, he remained a Scotsman to the end.
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 Tidewaiter Tait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Archibald Phineas Tait, better known as 'Tidewaiter Tait', was born in Hartlepool, England on 22 May 1845 and died in Takao, Formosa on 19 October 1930.
Tait was born into a family that profited greatly from the new railway that linked the port of West Hartlepool to the Durham coalfields.
The entrepreneurial family was involved in the import of Baltic timber and a relative, James Tait, was later to become famous as the founder of Tait and Co in Amoy (Xiamen) in Fujian, China, which was a dominant force in the 'coolie trade'.
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 GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
From Edinburgh, Tait rose in the hierarchy of the Church of England to become Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Tait then went to work with the noted physicist William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) to produce his Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867) tracing the concept of conservation of energy to the pioneering work of Newton himself.
Tait continued to research thermoelectricity and thermal conductivity, and in collaboration with Scottish physicist Balfour Stewart wrote The Unseen Universe (1867) that created enormous interest and led to a sequel Paradoxical Philosophy (1878).
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 Archibald Campbell Tait
On the other hand, Tait was not successful in dealing with matters which called for the higher gifts of a ruler, and especially in his relations with (a) the liberal trend in modern thought, and (b) the Catholic revival, (a) As regards the former, he was himself not a little in sympathy with it.
But although well-read, he was no scholar in the true sense, and had neither the knowledge to feel sure of his ground nor the theological insight to perceive the real point at issue.
The archbishop died on the 3rd of December (Advent Sunday), 1882, leaving a legacy of peace to the Church.
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 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Tait, Crawford or Crauford (1765? - 1832)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Son of John Tait of Harvieston, and a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh.
Tait was asked to 'assist him in the, to him, important consideration of getting a place'.
Tait married a daughter of Sir Ilay Campbell, the Lord President.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/TaitCrawfordorCrauford1765-1832.840.shtml   (348 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tait
Tait, Archibald Campbell TAIT, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL [Tait, Archibald Campbell] 1811-82, British churchman, archbishop of Canterbury, b.
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Fallen star Tait looks ready to rise again; Mathew Tait was cast into the rugby wilderness after his England debut failed to live up to the hype, but now his career is back on track, reports Chris Jones.
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 Tait (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tait is a surname, and may refer to
John Tait (egyptologist), Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London
Katharine Tait, British writer Katharine Russell, daughter of Bertrand Russell
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 AllRefer.com - Archibald Campbell Tait (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Archibald Campbell Tait 1811–82, British churchman, archbishop of Canterbury, b.
The Oxford movement never won his favor, and when Tract 90 appeared (1841) he was one of the "Four Tutors" who issued a formal protest.
Tait succeeded Thomas Arnold as headmaster at Rugby in 1842.
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 Search Results for "Tait"
Tait, Archibald Campbell, 1811-82, British churchman, archbishop of Canterbury, b.
Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician.
The poem is of an age earlier than that of Mahomet....
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TAIT, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL: Church of England, archbishop of Canterbury; b.
In 1850 Tait accepted the deanery of Carlisle, and became well known as a hard-working parish clergyman, and in 1856 was appointed bishop of London.
Tait initiated the scheme for raising a million pounds to meet the deficiency of church accommodation in London.
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 Clan Tait from Scottish Themes, Scotland
Thought to derive from old Norse, Tait meaning 'glad' or 'cheerful' comes from the word 'titr' and was a popular nickname among the Saxons.
Pension payments were made to John Tayt, a hospital clerk in Montrose, between 1362 and 1370, one of the earliest records of the family Tait.
Archibald Campbell Tait rose to be the Archbishop of Canterbury, he died in 1882.
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 Publications by John Tait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
J.I. Tait, “The use of a Psycholinguistic database in the Simplification of Text for Aphasic Readers” in “Linguist Databases” J. Nerbonne (ed.), CSLI (CUP), 1998.
Tait, J., Archibald, J. and Crawley, R. “Cohesive Generation of Syntactically Simplified Newspaper Text.” In Text, Speech and Dialogue, Third International Workshop, TSD 2000 Proceedings.
Archibald and R. Crawley “Cohesive Regeneration of Syntactically Simplified Newspaper Text” Workshop Proceedings: ROMAND 2000, Workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2000.
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 Overview of Archibald Campbell Tait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Born in Edinburgh, Tait was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1834.
Although raised a Presbyterian, Tait decided to become a priest in the Church of England (1836).
Tait was buried in Canterbury Cathedral (Kent), but is remembered by a memorial within the precincts of the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh in Bristo Place (Edinburgh) close to where he was born.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1122.html   (255 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
She was born June 18, 1934, in South Kortright, the daughter of Wilmer and Gertrude (Cronauer) Archibald.
Tait worked for 39 years as a kitchen aide for SUNY Delhi in McDonald Hall.
Six children, Danny Tait of Delhi, Dale and Judi Tait of Andes, Donna and James Crosby of Delhi, Diane Tait of Delhi, Major Staff Sgt. Douglas and Yuni Tait of Korea, and Darlene Tait of Walton; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters; and four sisters-in-law, survive.
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 §5. "Tract" 90. XII. The Oxford Movement. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Such an argument was familiar enough and could only alarm the ignorant.
The heads of houses awoke from torpor, and, except the patriarch president of Magdalen and the rector of Exeter, under the influence of four college tutors (one of whom, Archibald Campbell Tait, of Balliol, lived to become archbishop of Canterbury), condemned the tract in March, 1841.
Bishops “charged” against the author, and, at the same time, the English church seemed committed to an agreement with Prussian protestantism in the creation of a bishopric for Jerusalem.
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 DBLP: John Tait
Chih-Fong Tsai, Kenneth McGarry, John Tait: Qualitative evaluation of automatic assignment of keywords to images.
Odin Taylor, John MacIntyre, John Tait: Improved Classification for a Data Fusing Kohonen Self Organizing Map Using A Dynamic Thresholding Technique.
Michail Salampasis, John Tait, Chris Bloor: Evaluation of information-seeking performance in hypermedia digital libraries.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/t/Tait:John.html   (487 words)

  
 Are You a Prayer Warrior or a Prayer Wimp?
When praying, think about this insight from writer William Arthur Ward: "God wants us to be victors, not victims; to grow, not grovel; to soar, not sink; to overcome, not to be overwhelmed." Offer bold prayers that reflect a large faith and a large hope.
A prayer warrior who offered bold prayers was Archibald Campbell Tait, an Archbishop of Canterbury in the 19th century.
Between March 11 and April 8, 1856, Tait and his wife lost five of their six daughters to scarlet fever.
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 References for Tait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
T Archibald, Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years, Math.
C Denley and C Pritchard, The Golf Ball Aerodynamics of Peter Guthrie Tait, Mathematical Gazette 77 (1993), 298-313.
R C Reyes Rivas, Quine and Tait : on mathematical existence (Spanish), in Mathematics in Costa Rica, San José, 1990 1 (San José, 1990), 470-480.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/References/Tait.html   (162 words)

  
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B: 1766 Spouse: Margaret TAIT Of St. Andrews, Orkney, Scotland Archibald LINAY (M)...................
B: 23 Nov 1811 Father: Archibald LINAY St. Andrew, Orkney, Scotland Mother: Margaret TAIT Arch.
B: 5 Oct 1805 Father: Archibald LINAY St. Andrew, Orkney, Scotland Mother: Margaret TAIT Betcy LINAY (F).......................
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 MSS - Catalogue of the correspondence of J. Evelyn Denison, Viscount Ossington in the Denison Collection, University of ...
Letters from Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, 1862 Os 2 C 74 1.1.1862 Letter from [A.C. Tait], Bishop of London, Fulham Palace, Fulham, London, to J.E. Denison; 1 Jan. 1862 Considers best way to develop proposed [Speaker's] Commentary is get advice from good bookseller and informs him he will ask John Murray's opinion.
Letters from William Thompson, Archbishop of York, 1863-1869 Os 2 C 76 19.9.1863 Letter from [W. Thomson], Archbishop of York, London, to J.E. Denison; 19 Sept. 1863 Refers to discussions with Archbishop of Canterbury [Longley] concerning person known as 'X' [Charles Vaughan] and their disagreements concerning X's promotions.
Relates to Crawfurd's demand that stangers be excluded from Commons for debate on Contagious Disease Act from 24 May 1870.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/denison_oss6.html   (6658 words)

  
 Genealogy Index for surnames beginning with T
TAIT, Agnes (ABT 5 APR 1809-AFT APR 1881)
TAIT, Agnes (Nan) (28 APR 1910-31 OCT 1994)
TAIT, James Bryden (7 JAN 1860-8 AUG 1888)
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 St Mary's Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Archbishop Charles Longley - Died 1868 (buried in churchyard).
Archibishop Archibald Campbell Tait - Died 1882 (buried in churchyard).
Once inside St. Mary's, you simply go back in time and your eyes immediately focus on the Chancel, the oldest part of the church.
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 Descendents of James Freebairn - pafn05 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Sources of information - Archibald Freebairn's Family rec bk #1 pg 13 Rutherglen Mar 1820-1854 vol 4, F Scot 6 pt 1023, par reg 654 Ruthergleln Lanark Scot Birth, bapt 1698-1819, cert of proclamation of banns and mar from Gen Reg Office Edinburgh, census of Scot 1841, Rutherglen Lanark Scot 102964
The names which I am researching are: Freebairn, Gra/ey, MacLachlan, Morrison, Murray, Robertson, Tait, and Yuille.
I'm descended from Elizabeth Freebairn (daughter of Christian Tait and Archibald Freebairn) and John Morrison.
www.freebairn.co.uk /pafn05.htm   (213 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Education | Religion slacking, top school told
The 16th century Rugby School has been asked to improve its religious education lessons by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.
Former pupils at the school include archbishops Archibald Tait (1868-1883), Frederick Temple (1896-1903) and William Temple (1942-1945).
The students go to chapel four times a week and it is the chaplains who provide the religious instruction as well
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/2020652.stm   (373 words)

  
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Devlin Siobhan, Canning Yvonne Margaret, Tait John, Carroll John, Minnen Guido, Pearce Darren, An AAC Aid for Aphasic People with Reading Difficulties, Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2000, pp10-12.
Ellman Jeremy, Tait John, On the Generality of Thesaurally derived Lexical Links, Proceedings of JADT 2000 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, 2000, pp147-154.
Tait John, Exploring Information Spaces: Information Retrieval Strategies combining querying relevance feedback and browsing, Abstracts of Invited Lectures and Short Communications Delivered at The Ninth International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications, Technical University of Plovdiv, 2000, pp182.
osiris.sunderland.ac.uk /webedit/allweb/research/Publications.htm   (7429 words)

  
 Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Firstly, a prayer of Archibald Campbell Tait 1811-82.
, Tait and his wife lost five of their six daughters through scarlet fever:
O God, you have dealt very mysteriously with us.
www.warwick.ac.uk /chaplaincy/sermons/death.htm   (1187 words)

  
 FCN Editorial 5-23-2000: In Lockerbie case, its guilty until proven innocent
Comerford that he had misunderstood the defense lawyer’s question.
Another police witness, Archibald Tait, said he was part of a Lockerbie probe in Washington D.C., where he was instructed to purchase two Toshiba recorders of the type found by German police in the possession of PFLP-GC members, prepared as a bomb.
Fhimah deny placing a bomb in a suitcase in Malta, which joined the Pan Am flight at Frankfurt, heading for London and New York.
www.finalcall.com /perspectives/fcn_editorials/2000/edt05-16-2000.htm   (709 words)

  
 SoAJ News: Lambeth Perspective - Unity is the theme
His second point, renewal of the Church, also stressed the importance of maintaining dialogue.
He quoted an earlier archbishop, Archibald Tait, who just over a century ago said: 'The great evil is that the liberals are deficient in religion, and the religious are deficient in liberality.
Let us pray for an outpouring of the very spirit of truth.' And then he quoted Brian Davis, formerly Archbishop of New Zealand, who died just a few weeks ago: 'The Anglican via media, or middle way, has encouraged the growth of tolerance, freedom and generosity of spirit.
justus.anglican.org /newsarchive/lambeth98/sjn3.html   (1612 words)

  
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Sir John Macdonald Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury Diamond-Digging in South Africa, Eton Montem: a Memory of the Past, The Right Hon.
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 Randall Davidson
Randall Davidson was born in Edinburgh in 1848.
After being educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, he became chaplain to Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (his father-in-law) and Queen Victoria.
Davidson also served as dean of Windsor, Bishop of Rochester, Bishop of Winchester and
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