David Campbell Kidd

Kidd was born in 1889 in Shag Point,[1] Otago and received his education at Albany Street Public School in Dunedin.

Together with his brother Peter, he worked on and later managed his father's farm, 'Moss Vale', Mt Nessing Road, Albury.

He went into World War I with the South Canterbury Mounted Rifles and was wounded in the Battle of Gaza in 1917.

[2] In the 1938 election, Kidd won the Waitaki electorate from Labour's David Barnes by just 14 votes.

He died on 23 September 1954 in Kimberley, South Africa, while returning from a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nairobi, Kenya.