Eric Jay
British Anglican priest (1907–1989)
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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)
