George Reid (Scottish politician)
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The Right Honourable Sir George Reid |
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| 2nd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament | |
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In office 7 May 2003 – 14 May 2007 |
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| Preceded by | David Steel |
| Succeeded by | Alex Fergusson |
| Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ochil |
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In office 3 May 2003 – 7 May 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Simpson |
| Succeeded by | Keith Brown |
| Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife |
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In office 1 May 1999 – 3 May 2003 |
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4 June 1939 Tullibody, Clackmannanshire |
| Political party | Scottish National Party |
Sir George Newlands Reid PC FRSE (born 4 June 1939) is a Scottish politician. From February 1974 to 1979 he served as a Scottish National Party Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire. He was elected in 1999 as a Member of the newly established Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife. From 2003 to 2007 he served as member for the Ochil constituency and was appointed as the Scottish Parliament's second Presiding Officer.
In May 2008, Reid was appointed as the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the duration of the General Assembly's sitting that year. In 2011, he was appointed as Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire.
George Reid was born in 1939 at Tullibody, near Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, and educated at Dollar Academy and the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, where he was awarded an MA with First Class Honours in History in 1962. He then continued with further studies in Switzerland and Union College in the United States, obtaining a diploma in international relations.
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