Background
REID, Escott was born on January 21, 1905 in Campbellford, Ontario. Son of Reverend A. J. Reid and Moma Meredith Reid.
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Escott Meredith REID
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Toronto and Oxford Universities.
Career
Professor, of Government, and Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax 1937-1938. Appointed to Department, of External Affairs 1939. Served Ottawa, Washington, London.
Assistant Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs 1947-1948.
Deputy Under-Secretary 1948-1952. Acting Under-Secretary 1948-1949.
High Commissioner in India 1952-1957. Ambassador to German Federation Republic 1958-1962.
Director South. Asia and Middle East Department, of Institute Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1962-1965.
Principal, Glendon College, and Professor, of Political Science, York University, Toronto 1965-1969. Consultant, Canadian Institute Development Agency. Ottawa 1970-1972; Skelton-Clark Fellow, Queen"s University, Kingston 1972-1973.
Executive Committee and Preparatory
Commission, of United Nations, London 1945. First, Second and Twelfth Sessions United Nations General Assembly.
Chairman Assembly Committee on Procedure and Organization 1947.
Membership
Canadian Delegate Institute Civil Aviation Conference Chicago 1944, San Francisco 1945.
Connections
Married Ruth Herriot (died in 1989).
