John Barclay Tait

John Barclay Tait
FRSE
Born(1900-06-07)June 7, 1900
Died(1973-03-20)March 20, 1973
Macbieknowe, near West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland
Alma materHeriot-Watt College
OccupationHydrographist
EmployerFishery Board for Scotland
Known forHydrography of the North Sea and Faroe–Shetland Channel
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1933)
Keith Medal (1957–1959)

Dr John Barclay Tait FRSE (1900–1973) was a 20th-century British hydrographist. From 1962 to 1965 he was Deputy Director of the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen linked to the Fishery Board for Scotland. He was an expert in the hydrography of the North Sea and of the Faroe Shetland Channel.