THOMAS KIDD (1770-185o)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 783
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
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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