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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Kyd    
First Name(s)  James    
Year of Birth  1786    
Year of Death  1836    
Entry  Shipbuilder : son of Lt-General Alexander Kyd, who was related to and heir of Colonel Robert Kyd (q.v.) : born in India, 1786 : went home with his brother Robert to England, as boys, to be brought up to shipbuilding : returned to Calcutta in 1800, and were apprenticed to Waddell. the E. I. Co.'s master-builder. On his retirement, in 1807, they purchased the Kidderpur dockyard, near Calcutta, and James Kyd became Master Shipbuilder to the E.I. Co. In 1814 he visited England in the General Kyd, 1,279 tons, which he had constructed, and received, in 1815, testimonials from the Admiralty and Court of Directors for the repairs executed by him to H.M.S. Semiramis at St. Helena. Twenty-five vessels were built at his dockyard, including the Hastings man-of-war, 1,732 tons, 74 guns, in 1818, said to have been the only line-of-battle ship ever built in Calcutta, and the Diana steamer, 89 tons, in 1823, the first steamer built on the Hughli. He was universally recognized as the head of the East Indian class to which he belonged. He died Oct. 26, 1836, when the Kidderpur dockyard was purchased by Government : the brother Robert Kyd died in 1825.     
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