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REID, SIR WILLIAM (1791-1858)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 52 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
REID, SIR WILLIAM (1791-1858) , Scottish
administrator
  and man of science, was born on the 25th of
April
  1791 at the
manse
  of Kinglassie, Fifeshire, and entered the Royal Engineers in 1809. He saw active service in the Peninsula under
Wellington
 , and took
part
  in the bombardment of Algiers in 1816. In 1835 and 1836 he again saw active service, in Spain against Don Carlos. In 1838 he published his Attempt to develop the Law of Storms, which obtained wide popularity. In 1839 he was appointed
governor
  of the Bermudas, where he did much to develop the agricultural resources of the islands, and in 1846 he was transferred to Barbados. In 1850-51 he was chairman of the executive committee of the
Great
  Exhibition; on the completion of the
work
  he was made a K.C.B. and appointed
governor
  of
Malta
 . He died in London on the 31St of October 1858.


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