Walter Aubrey Kidd FRSE MRCS FZS (20 July 1852 – 21 February 1929) was a British physician and medical and zoological author.
He followed in the family tradition and studied Medicine at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge from 1870 later gaining his doctorate (MD) at the University of London.
His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, Charles E. S. Phillips, Ramsay Heatley Traquair and George Archdall O'Brien Reid.
[1] He died of heart failure on 21 February 1929 at Peak's View in the Rondebosch suburb of Cape Town in South Africa.
[3][4] Herpetologist Inez Whipple Wilder wrote a seven page review of Kidd's The Direction of Hair in Animals and Man in the Science journal.