John Barclay Tait

Dr John Barclay Tait FRSE (1900–1973) was a 20th-century British hydrographist. From 1962 to 1965 he was Deputy Director of the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen linked to the Fishery Board for Scotland.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh on 7 June 1900.

He studied Science at Heriot-Watt College graduating BSc in 1922 and followed this with a doctorate (PhD). In 1925 he began work as a hydrographer.

In 1928 he was appointed a Junior Naturalist to the Fishery Board of Scotland alongside Sydney Guy Gibbons.[1]

In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Bowman, Alan Grant Ogilvie, James Ritchie and Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. He won the Society's Keith Medal for the period 1957–1959.[2]

He died at Macbieknowe near West Linton in Peeblesshire on 20 March 1973.

Publications
  • Hydrography in Relation to Fisheries (1938)
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References
  1. London Gazette 10 January 1928
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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