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Old Photograph Archibald Campbell Tait Edinburgh Scotland
Old photograph of Archibald Campbell Tait in Edinburgh, Scotland. Archibald, born 21st of December 1811, died 3rd of December 1882, was an Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England. Born in Edinburgh, he was educated at the Royal High School and at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was twice elected dux. His parents were Presbyterians but he early turned towards the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was confirmed in his first year at Oxford. In 1842, he became an undistinguished but useful successor to Arnold as headmaster of Rugby School where one of his pupils was Lewis Carroll, and a serious illness in 1848, the first of many, led him to welcome the comparative leisure that followed upon his appointment to the deanery of Carlisle in 1849. His move to Canterbury in 1868, having already refused the archbishopric of York in 1862, constituted a recognition of his work but made no break in it. His last years were interrupted by illness and saddened by the death in 1878 of his only son, Craufurd, and of his wife.
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