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Robert Reid Biography
American Impressionist artist REID, ROBERT (1842-1904), merchant and politician, was born on 18 October 1842 at Leven, Fifeshire, Scotland, second son of Robert Reid, bookseller, and his wife Catherine, née Lambert. |
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For seventeen years Robert Reid worked in the wholesale warehouse of William Watson & Sons, Swanston Street, before setting up as a wholesale drapery importer in Flinders Lane in January 1874, with partners Edward Warne and John Adair. Two years later the firm became Warne & Robert Reid artist. Handsome new premises were built in 1881 for the staff of 90. |
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| When the boom collapsed Robert Reid was one of the veterans called on to represent the new business movement, the National Association, in colonial politics and was returned to the Legislative Council in October 1892 for Melbourne Province. |
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| Robert Reid painter had a long connection with the Collins Street Baptist Church. Robert Reid was chairman of the Baptist Union of Victoria and secretary of its theological college for many years. A prominent philanthropist, Robert Reid contributed £1000 for a wing of the Homoeopathic Hospital. | |||||||
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Robert Reid artist had suffered from diabetes for ten years and died in diabetic coma on 12 May 1904 in a London hotel, while on holiday, and was buried in Hampstead cemetery. When the unexpected news reached 'The Lane', warehouse flags were flown at half-mast. | ||||||
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