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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