Eric Jay

Eric George Jay[1] (1 March 1907 – 7 February 1989) was a British Anglican priest,[2] academic[3] and author.

Jay was educated at the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection; and ordained in 1931. After a curacy in Stockport he was a lecturer at King's College London. He was a Chaplain in the RAFVR from 1940 until[4] 1946 and priest in charge of St Clement Danes from 1945 until 1947. Dean of Nassau from 1948 to 1951.[5] He was Senior Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1951[6] to 1958; Principal of the Montreal Diocesan Theological College from 1958 to 1964; and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at McGill University from 1964 to 1970.

In 1937, Jay married Margaret Webb, and they had two daughters and a son. In 1957, aged eighteen, their elder daughter gave birth to a daughter who at Jay’s insistence was adopted. Becoming Sheila Caffell, she was later one of those who died in the White House Farm murders.[7]

Selected publications

Works by Jay include:[8]

  • The Existence of God (1946)
  • Origen’s Treatise on Prayer (1954)
  • New Testament Greek; an Introductory Grammar (1958)
  • Son of Man, Son of God (1965)
  • The Church: its changing image through twenty centuries (1977)

References

  1. ^ NPG details
  2. ^ London Gazette
  3. ^ Rev Canon Eric Jay. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 16 February 1989; pg. 18; Issue 63319
  4. ^ British Military Lists
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1951/52 p675 Oxford, OUP, 1952
  6. ^ Church Appointments. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 26 June 1951; pg. 6; Issue 52037
  7. ^ Lee, Carol Ann (2015). The Murders at White House Farm. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 21. ISBN 9781447285755.
  8. ^ British Library catalogue, accessed Friday 30 October 2015


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.