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About James Sinclair Tait
- James Sinclair Tait (March 4, 1849 – July 5, 1928) was a physician, author and political figure in Newfoundland.
- He represented Burin in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1889 to as a Liberal. Tait was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, the son of James Tait and Catherine Sinclair, and was educated in Wallace, Amherst and at the Mount Allison Wesleyan College.
- He received a teaching certificate from the normal school in Truro and taught school in Brigus.
- He studied medicine with a doctor in Brigus and went on to receive a M.D.
- from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1882, Tait married Sarah Elizabeth Calkin.
- After practising in Brigus for several years, He continued his medical studies at the Royal College of Physicians in London and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
- He was reelected in 1893 but his election was overturned in 1894 after an appeal was launched by the Conservatives.
- He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1897.
- From 1894 to 1909 he served as secretary and registrar for the Newfoundland Medical Board, and as a member of the St.
- John's Board of Health from 1904 to 1909. Tait also served as medical superintendent and resident physician at the Hospital for the Insane in Waterford.
- In 1896, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
- He was a member of the municipal council for St.
- John's from 1916 to 1920.
- Tait died in St.
- John's at the age of 79. He contributed medical articles and poetry to various local periodicals and published a pamphlet Tuberculois in 1916.
- His ballad "Allan Lee" appeared in Songs of Newfoundland published in 1917.
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