James Smith Reid, FBA (1846–1926) was an English author, scholar and historian. He was educated at the City of London School, which was then in Milk Street,

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, whose masters included Joseph Hirst Lupton. He was appointed the first Professor of Ancient History at the

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, serving from 1899 to 1925. He was author of numerous articles in the ''

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'' (11th ed., 1911) and a great number of Latin textbooks, and also translated

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's '' Academica''.

Works

''The Municipalities of the Roman Empire
' (Cambridge: University Press, 1913)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, James 1846 births 1926 deaths 19th-century English historians 20th-century English historians Professors of Ancient History (Cambridge)