Thomas Kidd (classical scholar)
Thomas Kidd (1770 – 27 August 1850) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster.
He was born in
Norwich, Norfolk. The last of these had a son, Richard Hayward Kidd, who was Colonial Chaplain of Hong Kong until his death in 1879.[citation needed
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Kidd held numerous scholastic and clerical appointments. In 1818 he was appointed headmaster of King's Lynn School; he next became master of Wymondham School, and then of
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:[3]
- Opuscula Ruhnkeniana (1807), the minor works of the great Dutch scholar David Ruhnken
- Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms of Richard Porson (1815).
- Miscellanea Critica of Richard Dawes (2nd ed., 1827)
He also published an edition of the works of Horace (1817) based upon Richard Bentley's recension.[3]
References
- ^ "Kidd, Thomas (KT789T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15514. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kidd, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 783.
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