Reid, Sir Wemyss, journalist and man of letters, born in Newcastle-on-Tyne; editor of the Leeds Mercury (1870-86), and of the Speaker since 1890; has written novels and biographies; is President of the Institute of Journalists, and was knighted in 1894; (b. 1842).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Reid, Thomas * Reid, Sir William