Gordon Reid (priest)
William Gordon Reid (born 28 January 1943) is an Anglican priest and former Dean of Gibraltar and Vicar General of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe.
Biography
Reid was born in Hawick, Scotland and educated at Galashiels Academy in the Scottish Borders. He attended Edinburgh University where he studied French and German literature, earning a M.A. in 1963. He began his theological studies at the Scottish Episcopal Theological College in Edinburgh and went on to Keble College at Oxford University, receiving a BA in theology before completing his theological training at Cuddesdon Theological College, also in Oxford.
Reid was ordained to the priesthood in 1968 and began his ministry with a curacy at St Salvador's Edinburgh, after which he was a tutor at Salisbury Theological College. In 1972, he was named Rector of St Michael and All Saints' Edinburgh and served in that position until he was appointed Provost of Inverness Cathedral in 1984.
In 1988, Reid became a priest of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, the diocese of the Church of England that encompasses all of continental Europe as well as Iceland, Morocco, Turkey and parts of the former Soviet Union. After serving as Chaplain of St Nicholas' Ankara, Turkey and Chaplain of St Peter's and St Sigfrid's Stockholm, Sweden, he was appointed Vicar General of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe in 1992 and Dean of Gibraltar in 1998. Reid was named Archdeacon of Italy and Malta in 2000 and served in that capacity until 2004, when he was appointed Rector of Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia in the United States in 2004.
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Gordon Reid (governor)
Gordon Stanley Reid AC (22 September 1923 – 26 October 1989) was an Australian academic who served as the 28th Governor of Western Australia. Born in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, he was educated at Hurstville Boys High School before enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a Flying Officer during the Second World War. After the conclusion of the war, Reid studied at the London School of Economics in England, later winning a scholarship to Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Having obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD), Reid lectured at the University of Adelaide before serving as the vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1978 to 1982. Appointed governor in 1984, he served in the position until 1989, resigning a month before his death from cancer.
Biography
Reid was educated at Hurstville Boys High School in New South Wales from 1934 to 1937, then enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942, reaching the rank of Flying Officer by the time of his discharge in 1946. He met and married his wife, Ruth, in Brighton, England while stationed at RAF Gamston. In his civilian career Reid worked as a reading clerk, accountant and clerk of papers. He was clerk of records for the Australian House of Representatives from 1952 to 1955, and was Serjeant-at-Arms at Parliament House, Canberra while studying for his Commerce degree. He then travelled to England where he obtained his master's degree and his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the London School of Economics. He won a Nuffield Scholarship.
Gordon Reid (footballer)
Gordon Reid (29 October 1947 – 3 May 2010) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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