Introduction

Biography

Daniel was the son of Bris­tol bu­si­ness­man Da­ni­el Wait and Mary Ja­go. He mar­ried twice, to Pris­cil­la Mor­gan Thorne (1814, Westbury-on-Trym, north Bris­tol), and Eli­za Wylde (1819, Bur­ring­ton, So­mer­set).

He ma­tri­cu­lat­ed at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege, Ox­ford, in 1809, and com­plet­ed his stu­dies at St. John’s Col­lege, Cam­bridge (LLB 1819, LLD 1824).

He served as cur­ate at Whit­church, Puck­le­church (near Bris­tol), and Marsh­field, and in 1819 be­came rec­tor of Blag­don, Som­er­set.

He was known as a writ­er and He­brew schol­ar.

Works

• A De­fence of a Critique of the He­brew Word Na­chash (Lon­don, 1811)
• An In­qui­ry in­to the Re­li­gious Know­ledge Which the Hea­then Phi­lo­so­phers De­rived from the Jew­ish Scrip­tures (Cam­bridge, 1813)
• A Com­pa­ri­son of Cer­tain Tra­di­tions Found in the Thal­mud, Tar­gum­iy and Rab­bi­ni­cal Writ­ers, with Cir­cum­stanc­es in the Life of Our Sav­iour (Cam­bridge, 1814)
• A Cri­ti­cal Ex­am­in­ation of Some Few Scrip­ture Texts, Which Main­tain the Doc­trine of a Tri­ni­ty in Uni­ty (Lon­don, 1819)
• Jewish, Ori­ent­al, and Class­ic­al An­ti­qui­ties (Camb­ridge, 1823)
• A Course of Ser­mons Preached Be­fore the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge (Lon­don, 1826)
• A Se­lect­ion from the Psalms (Lon­don: Long­man, Brown, Green & Long­man, 1848)