Ronald Kidd
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Ronald Kidd (July 11, 1889 - November 17, 1942) was a civil rights campaigner.
Born on 11 July 1889 in London, England, the son of surgeon Leonard Joseph Kidd, grandson of doctor Joseph Kidd (1824-1918), and nephew of doctors Percy Marmaduke Kidd and Walter Aubrey Kidd, Ronald Hubert Kidd had a variety of jobs before finding his vocation as a campaigner against injustices in 1930s and 1940s Britain.
In 1934 he founded the Council for Civil Liberty (later the National Council for Civil Liberty, or NCCL, now known as Liberty), which included such figures as E. M. Forster as its President and Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, Havelock Ellis, Aldous Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Bertrand Russell, and H. G. Wells among its vice-presidents.
Affected by ill-health (though unwilling to acknowledge it) throughout his life, he died aged 52 on 13 May 1942.
[edit] Sources
- Mark Pottle, ‘Kidd, Ronald Hubert (1889–1942)’, accessed 17 November 2007, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [with numerous further references, including:]
- Sylvia Scaffardi, Fire Under the Carpet: Working for Civil Liberties in the 1930s (London, 1986)
