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JOHN KIDD (1775-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:KIDD (1775-1851)  , See also:English physician, chemist and geologist, See also:born at See also:Westminster on the loth of See also:September 1775, was the son of a See also:naval officer, See also:Captain, See also:John See also:Kidd . He was educated at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds and Westminster, and after-wards at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1797 (M.D. in 1804) . He also studied at See also:Guy's See also:Hospital, See also:London (1797-1801), where he was a See also:pupil of See also:Sir See also:Astley See also:Cooper . He became reader in See also:chemistry at Oxford in 18o1, and in 1803 was elected the first Aldrichian See also:professor of chemistry . He then voluntarily gave courses of lectures on See also:mineralogy and See also:geology: these were delivered in the dark See also:chambers under the Ashmelean Museum, and there J . J. and W . D . See also:Conybeare, W . See also:Buckland, C . G . B . See also:Daubeny and others gained their first lessons in geology .

Kidd was a popular and instructive lecturer, and through his efforts the See also:

geological See also:chair, first held by Buckland, was established . In 1818 he became a F . R . C . P.; in 1822 regius professor of See also:medicine in See also:succession to Sir See also:Christopher Pegge; and in 1834 he was appointed keeper of the See also:Radcliffe Library . He delivered the Harveian oration before the Royal See also:College of Physicians in 1834 . He died at Oxford on the 7th of September 1851 .

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