"James Tait was born at Dumfries in the 18th Century. He crossed the border into England and settled at Liverpool where he married Jane Watson of Myddleton Derbyshire. He was in France at Versailles near the Court of Louis XVI, where he carried on the then respected and lucrative profession of barber-surgeon. The late Earl of Rosebery, then Prime Minister, in his address to the students of Edinburgh University on his election as Rector referred to the fact that his ancestor was a barber-surgeon. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, James Tait disappeared and was thought by his relatives to have been guillotined, but later on he appeared in England and lived with his son, William Watson Tait, until his death."
Source: Mortimer Constantine Tait genealogy
Cause of Death: Dropsy
Source: Mortimer Constantine Tait genealogy
Cause of Death: Dropsy
"James Tait was born at Dumfries in the 18th Century. He crossed the border into England and settled at Liverpool where he married Jane Watson of Myddleton Derbyshire. He was in France at Versailles near the Court of Louis XVI, where he carried on the then respected and lucrative profession of barber-surgeon. The late Earl of Rosebery, then Prime Minister, in his address to the students of Edinburgh University on his election as Rector referred to the fact that his ancestor was a barber-surgeon. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, James Tait disappeared and was thought by his relatives to have been guillotined, but later on he appeared in England and lived with his son, William Watson Tait, until his death."
Source: Mortimer Constantine Tait genealogy
Cause of Death: Dropsy
Source: Mortimer Constantine Tait genealogy
Cause of Death: Dropsy
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