Sir William Reid

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FIME DSc DCL (20 June 1906–2 October 1985) was a 20th century Scottish businessman and mining engineer. He served as President of the Mining Institute of Scotland 1951/2 and as President of the Institute of Mining Engineers 1956/7. He was Chairman of the Durham Division of the National Coal Board.

Life

He was born on 20 June 1906 the son of Sir

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(1879-1961), a mining engineer and author of the "Reid Report" on British mining, and cousin to mining entrepreneur

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. William was educated at Dollar Academy. He studied mining and metallurgy at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1929 and gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1933. In 1956 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Robert McAdam, Sir Edmund Hirst, James Pickering Kendall, and

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. He received honorary doctorates from

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in 1967 (DSc) and from

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in 1970 (DCL). He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972. He died on 2 October 1985 is buried with his parents in Beath Cemetery in Cowdenbeath in

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Family

He was married to Sheila Janette Christiana Davidson.

Publications

*''The Reconstruction of the British Mining Industry'' (1949) with his father Sir Charles Reid

References

1906 births 1985 deaths People from Fife People educated at Dollar Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Knights Bachelor Businesspeople awarded knighthoods British mining engineers {{UK-engineer-stub