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George Reid
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir George Houstoun Reid, The Right Honourable Sir George Reid, Sir George Reid, George Houstoun Reid, Right Hon. G. H. Reid, Sir George Houston Reid
Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales (1845-1918)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1854
- Died
- 1925
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Participation and representation
- Building high-performance fox-body Mustangs on a budget
- How to rebuild the small-block Ford
- Practical sanitation
- Practical sanitation
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1685-02-23
- Active to
- 1759-04-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14,713
- Total plays
- 52,745
Tags
Producer for British electronic duo AlunaGeorge, along with vocalist and songwriter Aluna Francis. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/George+Reid">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,950x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,635x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,900x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,657x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,202x
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Edward VII
- Governor general
- Lord Northcote
- Preceded by
- Chris Watson
- Succeeded by
- Alfred Deakin
- Prime minister
- Alfred Deakin, Andrew Fisher
- Governor
- Sir Robert Duff , Lord Hampden
- Deputy
- William McMillan , Dugald Thomson , Joseph Cook
- Constituency
- Sydney-King
- Born
- ( 1845-02-25 ) 25 February 1845, Johnstone , Renfrewshire , Scotland
- Died
- 12 September 1918 (1918-09-12) (aged 73), London , England
- Resting place
- Putney Vale Cemetery , 51°26′26″N 0°14′21″W / 51.440426°N 0.239237°W / 51.440426; -0.239237
- Party
- None (before 1887), Free Trade (1887–1909), Liberal (1909–1910), Conservative (UK)
- Spouse
- Florence Brumby , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1891 )
- Relations
- Anne Fairbairn (granddaughter)
- Parents
- Rev. John Reid ; Marion Reid (née Crybbace)
- Education
- Scotch College
- Profession
- Civil servant, barrister, diplomat, politician
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Reid in the 1890s Sir George Houston Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was a Scottish-born Australian politician, diplomat, and barrister who served as the fourth prime minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905. He held office as the leader of the Free Trade Party, previously serving as the 12th premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899, and later as the high commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1916.
Reid was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He and his family immigrated to Australia when he was young. They initially settled in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney when Reid was 13, at which point he left school and began working as a clerk. He later joined the New South Wales civil service, and rose through the ranks to become secretary of the Attorney-General's Department. Reid was also something of a public intellectual, publishing several works in defence of liberalism and free trade. He began studying law in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in 1879. In 1880, he resigned from the civil service to run for parliament, winning election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “George Reid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.