Daniel Guildford Wait (1789–1850) was an English clergyman, Hebrew scholar and religious writer.
[1] He was ordained as curate in Pucklechurch, near Bristol, and on 12 March 1819 was presented to the rectory of Blagdon in Somerset.
Married twice, to Priscilla Morgan Thorne in 1814 and to Eliza Wylde in 1819 and had several children.
His first publication in 1811 was 'A Defence of a Critique of the Hebrew Word Nachash,' London, 8vo, in which he supported the conclusion that Eve was deceived by a serpent and not by an ape, as Adam Clarke had urged in the 'Classical, Biblical, and Oriental Journal.'
His chief work, 'Jewish, Oriental, and Classical Antiquities' (Cambridge, 8vo), which appeared in 1823, was compiled with much labour and research.