George Reid (Australian politician)
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The Right Honourable Sir George Houstoun Reid GCB, GCMG, KC |
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4th Prime Minister of Australia Elections: 1901, 1903, 1906 |
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In office 18 August 1904 – 5 July 1905 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Governor-General | Lord Northcote |
| Deputy | Allan McLean |
| Preceded by | Chris Watson |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Deakin |
| Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 1 January 1910 – 1 January 1916 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Fisher |
| Minister for External Affairs | |
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In office 18 August 1904 – 5 July 1905 |
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| Prime Minister | George Reid |
| Preceded by | Billy Hughes |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Deakin |
| Federal leader of the Free Trade/Anti-Socialist Party | |
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In office 1 January 1901 – 16 November 1908 |
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| Deputy |
William McMillan Joseph Cook |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Cook |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 7 July 1905 – 16 November 1908 |
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| Prime Minister | Alfred Deakin Andrew Fisher |
| Deputy | Joseph Cook |
| Preceded by | Chris Watson |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Cook |
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In office 19 May 1901 – 17 August 1904 |
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| Prime Minister |
Edmund Barton Alfred Deakin Chris Watson |
| Deputy | William McMillan Joseph Cook |
| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Succeeded by | Chris Watson |
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Premier of New South Wales Elections: 1894, 1895, 1898 |
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In office 3 August 1894 – 13 September 1899 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Governor |
Sir Robert Duff The Viscount Hampden |
| Preceded by | George Dibbs |
| Succeeded by | William Lyne |
| Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for St George's, Hanover Square | |
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In office 15 July 1913 – 12 September 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Sír Alexander Henderson |
| Succeeded by | Sir Newton Moore |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for East Sydney | |
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In office 30 March 1901 – 13 April 1910 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | John West |
| Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Sydney-King |
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In office 3 August 1894 – 30 March 1901 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Broughton |
| Member of the New South Wales Parliament for East Sydney |
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In office 2 March 1887 – 3 August 1894 Serving with Edmund Barton; John McElhone; George Griffiths; Henry Copeland; Sydney Burdekin; John Street; George Griffiths; William McMillan; Walter Bradley; Varney Parkes |
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| Preceded by | George Griffiths |
| Succeeded by | District Abolished |
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In office 14 December 1880 – 3 August 1884 Serving with Arthur Renwick; Henry Parkes; Henry Dangar; Edmund Barton; John McElhone; George Griffiths; Henry Copeland |
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| Preceded by | John Davies |
| Succeeded by | Sydney Burdekin |
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25 February 1845 Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK |
| Died | 12 September 1918 (aged 73) London, UK |
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Putney Vale Cemetery, London 51°26′26″N 0°14′21″W / 51.440426°N 0.239237°W |
| Nationality | British-Australian |
| Political party | Free Trade/Anti-Socialist |
| Spouse(s) | Flora Reid |
| Children | 3 |
Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was a Scottish-born Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia.
Reid was the last leader of the Liberal tendency in New South Wales, led by Charles Cowper and Henry Parkes and which Reid organised as the Free Trade and Liberal Association in 1889. He was more effective as Premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899 than he was as Prime Minister in 1904 and 1905. This partly reflected the disappearance of the rationale for the Free Trade Party with the imposition of tariffs by the federal government and the disappearance of the political centre ground. Although a supporter of Federation, he took an equivocal position on it during the campaign for the first referendum in June 1898, earning himself the nickname of "Yes-No Reid."
Reid was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, son of a Church of Scotland minister, and migrated to Victoria with his family in 1852. His family was one of many Presbyterian families brought out from Scotland by Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang, with whom his father worked at Scots' Church, Sydney. He was educated at Scotch College, where he said he could "read, write and count fairly well", but had "a lazy horror of Greek" and no appetite for the "wide range of metaphysical propositions" that formed part of the curriculum.
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