KIDD

kidd, thomas (1770-1850), 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 1850. 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.