. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. Archbishopof Canterbury, the Most Reverend ArchibaldCampbell Tait, of whom, in these recollectionsit will be my privilege first of all to speak. THE MOST REVEREND DR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY FROM 1868 TO 1882 Archibald Campbell Tait—of Scottish par-entage, as his name very clearly indicates—was born at Edinburgh on December 22,18II. His school life was mainly passedin Edinburgh; and it ought to interestAmericans that one of the poems for which,as a pupil in the Edinburgh Academy, hewon a prize, was a set of Latin hexameterso
. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. Archbishopof Canterbury, the Most Reverend ArchibaldCampbell Tait, of whom, in these recollectionsit will be my privilege first of all to speak. THE MOST REVEREND DR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY FROM 1868 TO 1882 Archibald Campbell Tait—of Scottish par-entage, as his name very clearly indicates—was born at Edinburgh on December 22,18II. His school life was mainly passedin Edinburgh; and it ought to interestAmericans that one of the poems for which,as a pupil in the Edinburgh Academy, hewon a prize, was a set of Latin hexameterson American Independence. The boy grewup side by side with a young kinsman whoseparents were Church-people; and when, later,he won what was known as the Snell Exhib-ition, and went, on that Foundation, toOxford, he became an undergraduate of theUniversity in Balliol College. It was while at The Most Reverend Doctor Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury. From a photograph reproduced by permission ofElliott & Fry, IRccoUections ot Hrcbbtsbop Uait 201 Oxford that he was confirmed by the Bishopof Oxford, of that time, and a little later won ascholarship in Balliol itself. On Trinity Sun-day, 1836, he was ordained deacon by Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, and soonafter became curate of March Baldon, in adesolate region some five miles from afterward when, as Bishop of London,he instituted there some novel and unconven-tional places for mission work among the poor,he recalled the lessons he had learned, as astripling, in March Baldon. Tait remained a tutor in Oxford until, in1842, he was chosen to succeed Dr. ThomasArnold as Head Master of Rugby School. AtRugby he spent seven years, and was then ap-pointed Dean of Carlisle. The Rugby lifewas an anxious and laborious one, and thetrepidation with which his friends contemplatedhis attempting it is curiously illustrated by aletter from one of the most intimate of them,Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, after
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