Percy Kidd

Percy Marmaduke Kidd (13 February 1851 – 21 January 1942) was an English medical doctor.

Born at Blackheath in Kent in 1851, the oldest of the eight children of Dr Joseph Kidd and his first wife Sophia McKern. He was educated at Uppingham School where he excelled at sports, becoming captain of the cricket XI in 1868 and 1869, playing in the rugby XV and was Athletic Champion in 1869. He went up to Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a First Class degree in Natural Sciences in 1873.

Like his father, he became an eminent London doctor, training at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Dr Samuel Gee and Dr John Wickham Legg, qualifying in 1878. In 1881 he married Gertude Eleanor Harrison (1855–1940). The couple had four children, including Leslie Kidd who played cricket for Cambridge University, Middlesex and Ireland.

Kidd made one appearance in first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club in 1874, playing against the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. In the two innings in which he batted he scored two ducks. He enjoyed salmon fishing, playing golf and music.