Ronald Kidd

Ronald Hubert Kidd (11 July 1889 – 13 May 1942) was a British civil rights campaigner.

[1] He had a variety of jobs before finding his vocation as a campaigner against injustices in 1930s and 1940s Britain.

[1] It included E. M. Forster as its president, and Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, Havelock Ellis, Aldous Huxley, J.

An early campaign against what became the Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 saw Kidd promote some effective amendments of the bill, supported by William Searle Holdsworth.

[3] Forster's funeral oration to Kidd was included in his collection of essays, Two Cheers for Democracy,[4] and concludes with the description: [T]here was in our friend something of the Ancient Roman, the Tribune of the People, who contents that the Res Publica should be the possession of all [...] There is here something that suggests the grandeur and the sternness of certain heroes of the ancient world, and their strife for an individual liberty compatible with civic righteousness.