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John "Jack" Guthrie Tait (24 August 1861 – 4 October 1945)〔(John Tait player profile ) Scrum.com〕 V.D. was a Scottish educator who became principal of the Central College of Bangalore prior to the First World War. In his early adulthood, Tait was a notable sportsman playing rugby union as a forward for Cambridge University and represented the Scotland international team twice between 1880 and 1885. As well as being a talented rugby player, Tait was, like his brother Frederick Guthrie Tait, a notable amateur golfer. ==Personal history== Tait was born in Edinburgh in 1861, the eldest son of Scottish mathematical physicist Peter Guthrie Tait and Margaret Archer Porter.〔(Provisional Bibliography of Peter Guthrie Tait ) The University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics〕 He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy before matriculating to Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1880. He received his BA in 1884, and on 7 November the same year was admitted at Lincoln's Inn.〔 Tait was called to The Bar on 25 April 1888 and was awarded his MA in 1890. In 1890 he travelled to India and took up a post in the Government Education Department at Mysore, Karnataka. He became Professor of Languages and vice-principal of Central College of Bangalore, and in 1908 he was made Principal of the College.〔 On 7 January 1904 he married Annie Smith Cook, daughter of the Principal of the Central College, John Cook FRSE (d.1915).〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He was commissioned a Captain in the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers on 31 October 1893.〔January 1908 Indian Army List〕 He resigned his commission as a Lieutenant-Colonel 12 July 1917.〔London Gazette 8 February 1919〕 He was awarded the Volunteer Decoration for his long service. In his later life, Tait became a keen student of the works of Sir Walter Scott, and assisted the editors of the centenary edition of the ''Letters of Sir Walter Scott'', and brought out a revised text of ''The Journal of Sir Walter Scott''〔(The Review of English Studies, 1948. Pg 261 ) oxfordjournals.org〕 based on the original manuscript.〔 He died in Edinburgh in 1945.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Guthrie Tait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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