Joseph Kidd

Joseph Kidd (15 February 1824 – 20 August 1918) was an Irish doctor, author, and physician to Benjamin Disraeli.

After medical training locally and in Dublin he moved to London to join the Homoeopathic Hospital, and then almost immediately returned to Ireland to help victims of the Great Famine.

In 1850 he married Sophia McKern, a childhood friend, with whom he had eight children, including Percy Marmaduke Kidd, the eldest.

Sophia died in 1872, and in 1875 Kidd married Frances Octavia Rouse, with whom he had another seven children.

He continued working until 1912, when he was nearly 90 years old and died aged 94 on 20 August 1918, in Hastings, Sussex.