James Caird

James Caird may refer to:

  • Sir James Caird (agricultural writer) (1816–1892), writer and politician
  • Sir James Key Caird (1837–1916), jute baron and philanthropist, sponsored Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
  • Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
  • James Caird (boat), a whaleboat named after James Key Caird, used by Sir Ernest Shackleton

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    Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    —William James (1842–1910)