Background
The youngest son of John Reid, a mahogany dealer and cabinet-maker in Glasgow, he was born there on 27 January 1773, and was educated at Glasgow grammar school and the University of Glasgow.
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The youngest son of John Reid, a mahogany dealer and cabinet-maker in Glasgow, he was born there on 27 January 1773, and was educated at Glasgow grammar school and the University of Glasgow.
University of Glasgow.
On his brother"s death he took over the business, adding to it that of cabinet-making and upholstery. In 1832 he sold off his stock-in-trade and retired from business. During the last years of his life Reid resided at Strahoun Lodge in the island of Cumbrae, where he died on 7 June 1865.
Reid married, in 1809, a daughter of Robert Ewing, a merchant of London, and they had three sons.
She died in 1826.