Edward Kidson

Edward Kidson OBE (12 March 1882 – 12 June 1939) was a New Zealand meteorologist and scientific administrator. He was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, England, on 12 March 1882.[1]

Kidson was educated at Nelson College from 1896 to 1900,[2] and at Canterbury College, from where he graduated MSc with first-class honours in electricity and magnetism in 1905, and MA in 1906.[1]

In the 1919 New Year Honours, Kidson was appointed an Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, for services rendered in connection with military operations in Thessaloniki, Greece, during the First World War.[3]

The Edward & Isabel Kidson Scholarship

On her death in 1959, Kidson's widow, Isabel, left sufficient funds for a scholarship to enable New Zealand university graduates who have shown ability in physics or a combination of physics and mathematics to undertake postgraduate study in meteorology or some other branch of science, either in New Zealand or overseas.[4]


References
  1. Brodie, James W. "Edward Kidson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
  3. "No. 31095". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1919. p. 74.
  4. https://www.universitiesnz.ac.nz/scholarships/edward-isabel-kidson-scholarship


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