Douglas Miller Reid (1897–1959) was a 20th-century Scottish schoolmaster and noted amateur botanist and botanical author.
Life
He was born in
Motherwell on 25 November 1897 and educated at
Motherwell Academy.
In 1918, aged only 21, he became a Member of the Linnean Society of London, later being elected a Fellow (FLS). From 1921 until 1953 he was Biology Master of
Harrow School. He was also Curator of the
Butler Museum.
In 1942 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were
Edward Hindle
Edward Hindle FRS FRSE FIB FRGS FRPSG (21 March 1886–22 January 1973) was a British biologist and entomologist who was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow from 1935 to 1943. He specialised in the study of parasites.
...
,
Alexander Condie Stephen,
Edward Wyllie Fenton and
John Berry.
He died suddenly on 4 September 1959 at his home, House of Stoer near
Lairg
Lairg ( gd, An Luirg, meaning "the shank/shin") is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin.
Lairg is unusual in the northern Highlands in being a large settlement th ...
in Sutherland in northern Scotland.
Publications
*''Animal Classification and Distribution'' (1925)
*''Introduction to Biology''
*''Botany for the Gardener'' (1966)
References
1897 births
1959 deaths
People from Motherwell
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
20th-century British botanists
Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Teachers at Harrow School
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