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

Famous quotes containing the word james:

    “There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)