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William Stanford Reid (13 September 1913 – 28 December 1996), usually cited as W. Stanford Reid, was a professor of history at
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and the
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and a
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minister. He held a
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degree from the
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(1941). He also had a divinity degree from
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, studying under the Presbyterian scholar
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.


Notes

He was the son of Rev. William Dunn Reid and Daisy Sanford. His brother was Stewart Reid - Montreal, Quebec. His parents were Joseph Reid b. 1838 and Janet Dunn b. 1863. His grandparents were some of the first Scottish settlers in the Eastern Townships of Quebec arriving in the late 1820s. His grandparents were William Reid and Jean Gould and Andrew Dunn and Elisabeth Oliver.A Genealogy of the Reid Family by W.D. Reid, 1938


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Further reading


"W. Stanford Reid -- A Classic Case of Exclusion"
A. Donald Macleod. Fall 1999 Channels, Vol. 16 No. 1.
''W. Stanford Reid: an evangelical Calvinist in the academy''
A. Donald Macleod. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004. .
"Lutheranism In The Scottish Reformation"
W. Stanford Reid. Westminster Theological Journal. Vol.7 No.2. May 1945.
"The Historical Development of Christian Scientific Presuppositions"
W. Stanford Reid. '' JASA''. Vol.27 (June 1975): 69–75.
"Science and Miracle: Another Approach"
W. Stanford Reid. '' JASA''. Vol.31 (September 1979): 171–172.
Reid's response to "Original Sin as Natural Evil"
(article by Richard H. Bube). '' JASA''. Vol.27 (December 1975):171-180.


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Reid's Worldcat identity
1913 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 20th-century Presbyterian ministers Academic staff of McGill University Academic staff of the University of Guelph Calvinist and Reformed scholars Canadian evangelicals Canadian historians of religion Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian Presbyterian ministers Historians of Christianity Presbyterian writers University of Pennsylvania alumni Westminster Theological Seminary alumni {{Canada-historian-stub