Sir James Caird was a Scottish agriculturist, agricultural writer and politician. His views were based on economic liberalism which led to him forming an advisory relationship to Sir Robert Peel and later under Benjamin Disraeli. He examined the Irish famine and still later served on the commission to examine the famines in India.
- Occupation
- agronomist, statistician, politician
- Position held
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom, president of the Royal Statistical Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- June 1816, 1816
