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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 WILLIAM REID (1791-1858)  , Scottish
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administrator and man of science, was born on the 25th of
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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
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part in the
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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
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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
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Great
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Exhibition; on the completion of the
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work he was made a K.C.B. and appointed governor of Malta . He died in
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London on the 31St of
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October 1858 .

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