George Houston Reid GCB GCMG (1845 - 1918)

Born 25 Feb 1845 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Flora Ann (Brumby) Reid GBE OBE — married 1891 in Presbyterian Manse, Wangaratta, Colony of Victoria

Died 12 Sep 1918 at age 73 in London, England [uncertain]

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Biography

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George Reid GCB GCMG came free to the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)

Sir George Houston Reid, GCB, GCMG, PC, KC, was the fourth Prime Minister of Australia and held the position for ten months and 17 days. He had been Australia's first Federal Leader of the Opposition, Premier of New South Wales (1894-99) and later the Federal Government's first High Commissioner to the UK (1909-16), and later an independent member of the British House of Commons (1916-18).

George Reid was born on 25 February 1845 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He was one of seven children of Reverend John Reid, a Presbyterian minister, and Marion Crybbace.^[1] The family migrated to Melbourne in 1852 aboard the Martin Luther, one of many Presbyterian families brought out to Australia by the Rev Dr J.D. Lang.

He married on 5 November 1891, Flora Ann Brumby, daughter of a Tasmanian farmer, at the Presbyterian manse, Wangaratta, Victoria.^[2]

Sir George Reid passed away in London on the 12th of September 1918, aged 73, of cerebral thrombosis.^[3] He was survived by his wife and their two sons and daughter. He is buried in the Putney Vale Cemetery, in Wimbledon London.

Sources

1. ↑ Old Parish Registers - Baptism (Scotland's People, http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 13 Mar 2022) birth/baptism record (image) for Reid, George Houston (Birth Date: 25 Feb 1845, Residence: Johnston, Father: Rev John Reid, Mother: Marion Crybbace) citing 559/70 330, Parish: Abbey, Page 330 of 568).
2. ↑ Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Victoria. Online index - Marriage (https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history : accessed 13 March 2022) index entry for Geo Houstoun REID and Flora Ann BROMBY (Registration number/year: 7993 / 1891).
3. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 13 March 2022) database entry for Reid, George Houston. Age: 73, GRO Reference: Q3 1918 in Kensington, Volume 01A, Page 127.

See Also:

• Wikipedia entry on Sir George Reid
• W. G. McMinn, 'Reid, Sir George Houstoun (1845–1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reid-sir-george-houstoun-8173/text14289, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 13 March 2022.
• National Museum of Australia - George Reid
• Museum of Australian Democracy (Old Parliament House) - George Reid
• David Fox (1994-6), Notes on the Ancestry of Sir George Reid (MS 1694), National Library of Australia.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8480595/george-houston-reid : accessed 22 January 2021), memorial page for Sir George Houston Reid (25 Feb 1845–12 Sep 1918), Find A Grave: Memorial #8480595, citing Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton, Greater London, England ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
• Wikidata: Item Q23352