biography
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Tait, Archibald Campbell
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| lived:
| (1811–82)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow and Oxford universities, and became a fellow of Balliol College. He entered the Church of England in 1836, and was an opponent of the Oxford Movement, protesting in 1841 against John Newman's Tract 90. He became headmaster of Rugby (1842), Dean of Carlisle (1849), and Bishop of London (1856). He showed firmness and broadmindedness, as well as tact, in dealing with controversies over Church ritual. In 1869 he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury (the first Scot to hold the post), and helped to lull the strife caused by Irish disestablishment. |
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