Squire Horace Reid (11 September 1887 – 29 July 1949) was an Australian politician. Reid was born in

Port Melbourne, Victoria Port Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip local government areas. Port Melbourne recorded a populat ...

to Captain John Robert Reid, a military officer from Greenock,

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

, and Hannah Lory. He was educated in

Annandale, New South Wales Annandale is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Annandale is located within 5 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the Inner Wes ...

and Albert Park. In 1902, he was employed by the States Cigar Factory where he worked for 25 years until his election to parliament. He held the seat of Oakleigh in the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presidin ...

on two occasions, from 1927 to 1932, when he was defeated by James Vinton Smith, then after regaining the seat, from 1937 until 1947.REID, Squire Horace
''re-member'' (Parliament of Victoria). After his defeat by

John Lechte John Scrimgeour Lechte (17 January 1921 – 1 July 2002) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hawthorn to market gardener John Lavidge Lechte and Caroline Reid Scrimgeour. He attended state schools and followed his father to become a ...

in 1947, Reid worked as a cigar manufacturer, and was involved in sport administration, serving as president of the

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

from 1947 until his death.

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