Henry Tattam

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Henry Tattam (1789–1868) was an English Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar from Stanford Rivers, Essex. He served as Rector of St Cuthbert's Bedford (1822–1849) and, from 1831 to 1849, Rector of Great Woolstone in Buckinghamshire. He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1845 to 1866 and Rector of Stanford Rivers from 1849. He also served as Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen from 1853.

Tattam wrote many theological and philological works, including editions and translations of Coptic texts. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.

In 1838–39 he traveled to Egypt and the Holy Land, met the patriarch, and collected Coptic and Syriac manuscripts for the British Museum (now in the British Library).

He received honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Leiden.

In 1848 he published The Apostolical Constitutions, or Canons of the Apostles, which includes the Alexandrine Sinodos (Clementine Heptateuch) and other related texts.