Douglas Miller Reid (1897–1959) was a 20th-century Scottish schoolmaster and noted amateur botanist and botanical author.

Life

He was born in

Motherwell Motherwell (, ) is a List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Shires of Scotland, Historically in the p ...

on 25 November 1897 and educated at Motherwell Academy. In 1918, aged only 21, he became a Member of the Linnean Society of London, later being elected a Fellow (FLS). From 1921 until 1953 he was Biology Master of

Harrow School Harrow School () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon (school founder), John Lyon, a local landowner an ...

. He was also Curator of the Butler Museum. In 1942 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

. His proposers were Edward Hindle, Alexander Condie Stephen, Edward Wyllie Fenton and John Berry. He died suddenly on 4 September 1959 at his home, House of Stoer near

Lairg Lairg (, meaning "the shank/shin") is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin. Lairg is unusual in the northern Highlands in being a large settlement that is not on ...

in Sutherland in northern Scotland.

Publications

*''Animal Classification and Distribution'' (1925) *''Introduction to Biology'' *''Botany for the Gardener'' (1966)

References

1897 births 1959 deaths People from Motherwell Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century British botanists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Teachers at Harrow School Fellows_of_the_Zoological_Society_of_London {{UK-botanist-stub