Description
Brought to Dundee in 1899 by Barclay Walker on a whaling ship, Kidlaw spent time in the city. He could read and write and, according to the Aberdeen Press and Journal, one of the things he enjoyed was playing football: “Already Kidlaw has been initiated into the mysteries of football, to which game he devoted himself with zest, and to the admiration of Captain M’Kays’s boys and his other youthful companions, who prophecy for him a place in one of the junior elevens practising on Tayport Common.”
Bibliographic sources
“An Esqu*imaux Boy in Dundee,” Aberdeen Press and Journal, 8 November 1899, 2.