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THOMAS KIDD (1770-185o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:KIDD (1770-185o)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar and schoolmaster, was See also:born in See also:Yorkshire . He was educated at Giggleswick School and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He held numerous scholastic and clerical appointments, the last being the rectory of Croxton, near Cambridge, where he died on the 27th of See also:August 185o . See also:Kidd was an intimate friend of See also:Porson and See also:Charles See also:Burney the younger . He contributed largely to See also:periodicals, chiefly on classical subjects, but his reputation mainly rests upon his See also:editions of the See also:works of other scholars: Opuscula Ruhnkeniana (1807), the See also:minor works of the See also:great Dutch scholar See also:David Ruhnken; Miscellanea Critica of See also:Richard See also:Dawes (2nd ed., 1827); Tracts and See also:Miscellaneous Criticisms of Richard Porson (1815) . He also published an edition of the works of See also:Horace (1817) based upon See also:Bentley's recension .

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