Peter Reid (26 November 1910 – 16 August 1939) was a

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player and mountain climber.

Biography

Peter Reid born in the family of

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), who later worked in Georgetown (

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). He graduated from the

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. After graduation, he lived in

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. A year before his death, Peter Reid returned to

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. He worked as an insurance agent in the company ''Standard Life Assurance Company''. Preparing to get a profession

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and passed the entrance exam at the Institute of Actuaries in London. While studying at Cambridge, Peter Reid was the secretary of the University Chess club. Later he was one of the strongest Scottish chess players in the 1930s. Peter Reid played for Scotland in the Chess Olympiad: * In 1937, at fourth board in the 7th Chess Olympiad in

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(+3, =3, -11). Peter Reid was an experienced mountain climber. He died while climbing Mount An-Cioch, located in an array of Coolin Hills on the Isle of Skye in the

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archipelago. While climbing the steep slope, Reed, who was the first to go, fell from a height of 70 feet and fell onto a small platform. Rescuers who arrived at the scene of the accident found Reed already dead.

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Peter Reid
chess games at 365chess.com 1910 births 1939 deaths People from Orpington Sportspeople from the London Borough of Bromley Alumni of the University of Cambridge Scottish chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Scottish mountain climbers 20th-century chess players Deaths from falls Mountaineering deaths Sport deaths in Scotland {{Scotland-bio-stub Deaths on Scottish mountains