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:

    “The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.”
    —William James (1842–1910)