KIDD

John (son of John Kidd, captain of a merchant ship). b. London 10 Sep. 1775; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1793, B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800, M.B. 1801, M.D. 1804; studied at Guy’s hospital 1797–1801; chemical lecturer at Oxf. 1801, Aldrich’s profe or of chemistry 1803–22, reader in anatomy on Dr. Lee’s foundation 1816, regius profe or of physic 1822–51; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1808–26; Radcliffe librarian 1834 to death; candidate of R.C.P. 31 March 1817, a fellow 16 March 1818, Harveian orator 1836; F.R.S. 28 March 1822; F.L.S. 1835; author of Outlines of mineralogy 2 vols. Oxford 1809; On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man (The Second Bridge water treatise) 1833, 6 ed. 1852; Observations on medical reform 1841. d. 37 St. Giles’s street, Oxford 17 Sep. 1851. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians , iii 178 (1878).