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Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid (11 August 1836 – 5 November 1911) was a Scottish journalist and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1886. Reid was the son of the Hugh Reid and his wife Christian Gilzean who was descended from a long line of Highland crofters. He was primarily self-educated and later studied for the non-conformist ministry, and passed examinations in classics and theology.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
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''. In the early 1860s, he founded the

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'' Daily Gazette'', the first halfpenny evening newspaper in the

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. In the 1885 general election, Reid was elected as

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for the English constituency of

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as a

. His wife, Anne Gilzean Reid, was a founder member and president of the Women's Liberal Association. Gilzean-Reid resided much in Belgium, and took early part in promoting civilising and religious agencies in the Congo. For his services, he was appointed and Officer of the Order of Leopold in 1897 and a Commander of the Order of the Crown in 1899. In 1897, Reid leased Dollis Hill House in North

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, where he invited the writer Mark Twain to stay as a guest in 1900. He died in Hendon aged 75.

Honours

He was knighted in 1893.REID, Sir Hugh Gilzean, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007

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* Scottish Liberal Party politicians 1836 births 1911 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 English knights Knights Bachelor Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub