Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid (11 August 1836 – 5 November 1911) was a Scottish journalist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.
This photo of Hugh Gilzean-Reid appeared in Page's Magazine, August 1902.
Reid was the son of the Hugh Reid and his wife Christian Gilzean who was descended from a long line of Highland crofters. He was primarily self-educated and later studied for the non-conformist ministry, and passed examinations in classics and theology.[1]
Reid was editor of the Edinburgh Weekly News. In the early 1860s, he founded the MiddlesbroughDaily Gazette, the first halfpenny evening newspaper in the United Kingdom.
^ abREID, Sir Hugh Gilzean, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007
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