THOMAS

See also:

• KIDD, JOHN (1775-1851)
• THOMAS KIDD (1770-185o)
• KIDD, WILLIAM

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