Caird, SIR JAMES

Caird, SIR JAMES, born at Stranraer, in Wigtownshire, in 1816, published in 1849 a treatise on High Farming as the Best Substitute for Protection, and among later works, English Agriculture in 1850-51 (1852), a reprint of letters to the Times, which has been translated into German, French, and Swedish, and republished in the United States. He sat in parliament as a Liberal, 1857-65, and in 1864 obtained a grant for the collection and publication of agricultural statistics of the country. Appointed chairman of the Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries in 1863, he was made a K.C.B. in 1882. He died 9th February 1892.