James Caird (politician)

For other people named James Caird, see James Caird (disambiguation).

Sir James Caird KCB FRS PC (1816 9 February 1892) was a Scottish agricultural writer and politician.

Life

Born at Stranraer, he was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh. He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth from 1857–59 and for Stirling Burghs from 1859-65.

He was a free-trade farmer. In 1849, he wrote High Farming as the best Substitute for Protection. He toured American, and Canada.[1]

He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865, President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1880-2 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1889. He was senior member of the Land Commission in 1882. He was director of the land department of the Board of Agriculture from 1889-91.[1]

He was appointed a CB in 1869 and promoted to KCB in 1882.[1]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Herbert
Member of Parliament for Dartmouth
18571859
Succeeded by
Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley
Preceded by
Sir James Anderson
Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs
18591865
Succeeded by
Laurence Oliphant


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