Sir William Reid
FRSE
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FIME DSc DCL (20 June 1906–2 October 1985) was a 20th-century Scottish businessman and mining engineer. He served as President of the Mining Institute of Scotland 1951/2 and as President of the Institute of Mining Engineers 1956/7. He was Chairman of the
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Division of the
National Coal Board
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Life
He was born on 20 June 1906 the son of Sir
Charles Carlow Reid
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(1879–1961), a mining engineer and author of the "Reid Report" on British mining, and cousin to mining entrepreneur
Charles Augustus Carlow.
William was educated at
Dollar Academy
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. He studied mining and metallurgy at the
University of Edinburgh
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graduating with a BSc in 1929 and gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1933.
In 1956 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Robert McAdam,
Sir Edmund Hirst,
James Pickering Kendall
James Pickering Kendall FRS FRSE (30 July 1889, in Chobham, Surrey – 14 June 1978, in Edinburgh) was a British chemist.
Life
Kendall was born in Chobham, Surrey to soldier William Henry Kendall of the Royal Horse Artillery, and his second wi ...
, and
Hugh Bryan Nisbet
Hugh Bryan Nisbet (31 March 1902 – 21 November 1969) was a Scottish chemist who served as the first Principal of Heriot-Watt University. He had a specialist knowledge of petroleum.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh on 31 March 1902 the son of Rob ...
. He received honorary doctorates from
Heriot-Watt University
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in 1967 (DSc) and from
Durham University
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in 1970 (DCL).
He was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II
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in 1972.
He died on 2 October 1985 is buried with his parents in Beath Cemetery in
Cowdenbeath
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in
Fife
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.
Family
He was married to Sheila Janette Christiana Davidson.
Publications
*''The Reconstruction of the British Mining Industry'' (1949) with his father Sir Charles Reid
References
1906 births
1985 deaths
People from Fife
People educated at Dollar Academy
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Knights Bachelor
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Scottish mining engineers
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