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{{Short description|18th/19th-century English classical scholar}}
'''Thomas Kidd''' (1770{{snd}}27 August 1850) was an [[England|English]] classical scholar and schoolmaster.

He was born in [[Yorkshire]], and educated at [[Giggleswick School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=KT789T|name=Kidd, Thomas}}</ref>  He was the father of John Tyrwhitt Davy Kidd who served in India for many years and Richard Bentley Porson Kidd, who was rector of [[Potter Heigham]] church among other duties in [[Norwich, England|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|date=January 2021}}

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 [[Norwich School]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=15514|title=Kidd, Thomas (1770-1850), classical scholar and schoolmaster}}</ref> His last appointment was as rector of [[Croxton, Cambridgeshire|Croxton]], near [[Cambridge]], where he died. Kidd was an intimate friend of [[Richard Porson]] and [[Charles Burney (scholar)|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:<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Kidd, Thomas|volume=15|page=783}}</ref>

*[https://archive.org/details/opuscularuhnken00kiddgoog ''Opuscula Ruhnkeniana''] (1807), the minor works of the great Dutch scholar [[David Ruhnken]]
*[https://archive.org/details/tractsmiscellane00porsuoft ''Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms of Richard Porson''] (1815).
*[https://archive.org/details/miscellaneacriti00dawe ''Miscellanea Critica''] of [[Richard Dawes (classical scholar)|Richard Dawes]] (2nd ed., 1827)

He also published an edition of the works of [[Horace]] (1817) based upon [[Richard Bentley]]'s recension.<ref name="EB1911"/>

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