William Allan Reid

William Allan Reid (11 October 1865 – 17 March 1952) was a British Conservative Party politician, who served as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Derby from the 1931 general election until the 1945 general election.

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William Allan

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William Allan (English politician)

Sir William Allan, DL (1837 – 28 December 1903) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Gateshead from 1893 until his death in 1903. Sir William's professional career was as a steamship engineer in the early years of construction of these vessels and his business was the Scotia engineering works in Sunderland, England. He was also involved with a sea line, the Albyn Line, which bore the beginning letters of his surname. His early life included crew experience on steamships which were at one stage gun-running to America during the American Civil War, and he wrote of a number of dangerous escapades during this time.

His son, Walter Beattie Allan, published a book which was an illustrated account of his life, for his grandchildren. William Allan published a number of books of traditional Scottish poetry.

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William Allan (classicist)

William R. Allan (born 1970) is a Scottish classicist specializing in Greek epic and tragedy, particularly the plays of Euripides. He was educated at Glenrothes High School in Fife, then studied at the University of Edinburgh.

He is currently McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at University College, Oxford and Lecturer, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University.

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