Edwyn Tait

Edwyn worked as a merchant and draper in Lerwick at the family business. He was the second child of George Reid Tait (b. 1829, Lerwick), and Johan Frances Johnson (b. 7 Aug 1859, Lind, West Yell). Reid Tait married Jemima Brown, (b. 1894, Lerwick), in 1922 at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen.

Reid Tait was an antiquary, and founder and president of Shetland Folk Society. He was also a keen collector of books and articles about Shetland. One of his unfinished projects was the creation of a Shetland bibliography: his drafts of it are now in the Shetland Museum and Archives. When he died he bequeathed his collections to the Shetland Library.

He was the 1911 Guizer Jarl for the Lerwick Up Helly-Aa in his own right, and performed the role again in 1912 substituting for an absent H. Kay.

As a Rechabite, he was a prominent activist with the local temperance movement's successful bid to introduce alcohol prohibition in Shetland in 1921.