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SIR WILLIAM REID (1791-1858)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 52 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:REID (1791-1858)  , Scottish See also:administrator and See also:man of See also:science, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:April 1791 at the See also:manse of Kinglassie, Fifeshire, and entered the Royal See also:Engineers in 1809 . He saw active service in the See also:Peninsula under See also:Wellington, and took See also:part in the See also:bombardment of See also:Algiers in 1816 . In 1835 and 1836 he again saw active service, in See also:Spain against See also:Don See also:Carlos . In 1838 he published his See also:Attempt to develop the See also:Law of Storms, which obtained wide popularity . In 1839 he was appointed See also:governor of the See also:Bermudas, where he did much to develop the agricultural resources of the islands, and in 1846 he was transferred to See also:Barbados . In 1850-51 he was chairman of the executive See also:committee of the See also:Great See also:Exhibition; on the completion of the See also:work he was made a K.C.B. and appointed governor of See also:Malta . He died in See also:London on the 31St of See also:October 1858 .

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