Author: Kidd, Adam
Biography:
Kidd, Adam (1802-31: DCB)
The son of a farmer, Alexander Kidd, he was born in Tullynagee, Ireland, had some schooling in Latin and Greek, and came to admire the poetry of Moore and Byron. The date of his emigration is not clear but by 1824 he was living in Quebec, possibly teaching school. He was unsuccessful in an attempt to enter the Church of England ministry but published poems in several newspapers of Upper and Lower Canada, as well as in the Irish Shield of Philadelphia, sometimes under the pseudonym "Slievegallin." At the time of his death, he was working on a prose work on "the Tales and Traditions of the Indians." (DCB 17 July 2019)
Books written (1):
Montreal [PQ]: printed at the office of the Herald and New Gazette, 1830