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Kidd, Captain William
The infamous pirate Captain William Kidd, born in 1654,
was notorious for his activities on the Spanish Main. He ended his life
at the end of the gibbet at Wrapping in 1701.
Captain William Kidd was a sailor’s son from Dundee,
despite the legend that said he was a son of a minister. The legend, which
was disproved in 1999 by David Dobson (Honorary Research Fellow at Aberdeen
University’s Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies), told that
the pirate captain was a minister’s son from Greenock.
There was no trace of a Reverend Kidd ever having worked or preached in
Renfrewshire at the time of the villainous Captain's birth. It is suggested
that the myth of Kidd being a son of the Manse may have come from his
last words to Chaplain Paul Lorain before his death, which is recorded
in the Newgate Calendar.
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