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TAIT, ARCHIBALD C. 



fever, at Carlisle, in the spring of 1856, and 

 subsequently of his only son, Crawford, who 

 died, after a lingering illness, in 1878. 



The active zeal and diligence of Dr. Tait at 

 Rugby began to tell seriously upon his health 

 and strength, and it was intended to give him 

 an opportunity for rest and recreation that he 

 was appointed to the deanery of Carlisle in 

 1851. But his principles allowed no such 

 course as cessation from labor; and so diligent 



the sum of $5,000,000. This money was ap- 

 propriated to the erection of churches, schools, 

 and parsonages in the poorer suburbs of Lon- 

 don ; above seventy new districts have become 

 separate and endowed parishes ; and Scripture 

 readers in large numbers, as well as women de- 

 voted to mission work, besides a large accession 

 of working clergy, have done and are doing 

 something, at least, toward supplying the spir- 

 itual wants of the masses. 



ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT, D.D., D. C. L. 



was he in the discharge of the duties of his 

 office in preaching, in visiting the poor, in 

 looking after the public charities of the town 

 that, when a bishop was wanted for the great 

 diocese of London, Dr. Tait was placed in it, in 

 1856, at the direct suggestion of Queen Victo- 

 ria. His labors in this new sphere were abun- 

 dant and unceasing. He felt deeply the need 

 of endeavoring to do something more than had 

 as yet been accomplished for the myriads of 

 the poor in the vast metropolis, and he gave 

 his whole soul to the work. So successfully 

 did he urge upon the wealthy classes their duty 

 in this matter, that, in the course of ten years, 

 the "Bishop of London's Fund " was raised to 



On the death of Archbishop Longley, in 1868, 

 Dr. Tait was appointed his successor. He had 

 been offered the archbishopric of York some 

 years before, but declined this elevation, pre- 

 ferring to remain and carry on the work un- 

 dertaken in London under his auspices. He 

 was the first Scottish-born Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, and his appointment was due, beyond 

 doubt/mainly to the Queen. The first measure 

 of importance in which he was called upon to 

 take part, in his new position, was that of the 

 disestablishment of the Irish Church, in 1870. 

 The political necessity of this measure he felt 

 and acknowledged, while at the same time he 

 worked with others in striving to secure to the 



