Henry Tattam

Henry Tattam (December 28, 1788 – January 8, 1868, Stanford Rivers, Essex) was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar.

Tattam was Rector of St Cuthbert's Bedford, 1822-1849, and from 1831 to 1849 also Rector of Great Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. [Alllibone, S. A. "A critical dictionary of English literature", p. 2337] He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1845 to 1866, Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex from 1849, and a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen from 1853. [Boase, F., "Modern English biography", 1898-1921] Tattam was the author of various theological and philological works, including several editions and translations of Coptic texts. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835. Tattam visited Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838-9, meeting the patriarch and acquiring Coptic and Syriac manuscripts for the British Library. He received honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Göttingen and the University of Leiden. [Thompson Cooper, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26994 ‘Tattam, Henry (1788–1868)’] , rev. Chris Pickford, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004]

Works

*"Helps for Devotion", 1825
*"Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language", 1830
*"A Defence of the Church of England Against the Attacks of a Roman Catholic Priest", 1843

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*worldcat id|lccn-nr97-3510