John Gavin Tait

John Gavin Tait was a British Egyptologist and papyrologist born in Inverness in 1896, who earned an M.A. in 1918 and served as Croom Robertson Fellow at the University of Aberdeen from 1918 to 1921 before working as a proof reader at Oxford University Press. He was highly active in editing and bibliographies related to ancient Egyptian texts, contributing to 3390 editions in the Trismegistos database from 1927 to 2013, and published works such as on the Strategi and Royal Scribes. Tait died in 1965.