CAIRD, EDWARD British philosopher and theologian, brother of John Caird (q.v.), was born at Greenock on March 22, 1835, and educated at Glasgow university and Balliol college, Oxford. He took a first class in moderations in 1862 and in Literae humaniores in 1863, and was Pusey and Ellerton scholar in 1861. From 1864 to 1866 he was fellow and tutor of Merton college. In 1866 he became professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow, and in 1893 succeeded Jowett as master of Balliol. With T. H. Green he founded in England a school of orthodox neo-Hegelianism, and exerted a far-reaching influence on English philosophy and theology. Owing to failing health he gave up his lectures in 1904, and in May 1906 resigned his tership. He died on Nov. 1, 1908.