KIDD, THOMAS (1770-185o)
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KIDD, THOMAS (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 See Also: - KIDD, JOHN (1775-1851)
- KIDD,
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- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
(1770-185o) - KIDD, WILLIAM
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.
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