Edward Caird


Edward Caird was a Scottish philosopher. He was a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt.

Life

The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company, born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, and educated at Greenock Academy and the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford. He became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College.
In 1866, he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893. In that year he became Master of Balliol College, from which he retired in 1907.
He was elected a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1900.
In May 1902 he was at Carnavon to receive the honorary degree D.Litt. from the University of Wales during the ceremony to install the Prince of Wales as Chancellor of that university.
He was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage, alongside his wife, Caroline.
The philosopher John Watson was among his pupils at the University of Glasgow.
He died in Oxford on 1 November 1908 and was buried there in St Sepulchres Cemetery.
Caird was a Hegelian idealist and was an important contributor to the British idealist movement.

Family

He married Caroline Frances Wylie in 1867. They had no children.

Works

Books