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{{Short description|Australian politician (1842–1904)}}
{{For|the Victorian Legislative Council member and pastoralist, (1829–1900)|Robert Dyce Reid}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| image = Robert Reid.jpg
| title = [[Australian Senate|Senator]] for [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]
| term_start = 21 January 1903
| term_end = 31 December 1903
| predecessor = [[Frederick Thomas Sargood|Sir Frederick Sargood]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1842|10|18}}
| birth_place = [[Leven, Fife]], Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1904|5|12|1842|10|18}}
| death_place = London, England
| nationality = [[Scottish Australian]]
| spouse = Mary Jane Clancy
| party = [[Free Trade Party]]
| children = at least 10
| occupation = Businessman
}}
'''Robert Reid''' (18 October 1842 – 12 May 1904)<ref name=parl/><ref name=ADB>
{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
|last= Steven
|first= Margaret
|year= 1988
|volume= 11
|id2=reid-robert-8177
|title=Reid, Robert (1842–1904)
|access-date= 26 November 2014
}}
</ref> was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in [[Leven, Fife]], he migrated to Australia, arriving in [[Hobson's Bay]] on the ''Ralph Waller'' from Liverpool on 7 April 1855, the ship having struck an [[iceberg]] near the [[Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands)|Island of Desolation]]. He worked in the retail trade before becoming a businessman.

In 1891, after the death of Nunn, co-owner with Buckley of [[Buckley & Nunn]] store, Reid bought the business and sold it on in London in 1892 for £300,000 ({{inflation|AU|300000|1892|fmt=eq|r=-3}}).<ref name=Argus>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10042872 |title=Death of Mr Mars Buckley |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |date=11 October 1905 |access-date=19 January 2012 |page=7 |via=Trove}}</ref>

In October 1892 Reid was elected to the [[Victorian Legislative Council]] for [[Melbourne Province]] as a [[Free Trade Party|Free Trade]]r, becoming Minister for Defence and [[Minister for Health (Victoria)|Minister for Health]].<ref name="parl">{{cite re-member|name=Reid, Robert|access-date=2022-08-05|num2=798}}</ref> Reid lost his ministerial positions in 1894, but was re-created [[Minister for Health (Victoria)|Minister for Health]] and also [[Minister of Public Instruction (Victoria)|Minister of Public Instruction]] in 1902. On 21 January 1903, he was appointed to the [[Australian Senate]] for [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Sir [[Frederick Thomas Sargood|Frederick Sargood]].<ref name="Au Senate">{{Cite Au Senate |Sen id=robert-reid |name=REID, Robert (1842–1904) Senator for Victoria, 1903 |first=John |last=McKinley |year=2000 |access-date=2022-08-05}}</ref>

Reid did not contest the [[1903 Australian federal election|1903 election]], and died in 1904 on a visit to London.<ref name=Psephos>{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Adam|title=Australian Election Archive|work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia|year=2008|access-date=2008-11-11}}</ref> He is buried in [[Hampstead Cemetery]].<ref name="ADB" />

Reid was survived by his wife, four sons and six daughters. His sons continued the family business. His daughter [[Isabelle Reid|Isabelle]] was a veterinary surgeon.<ref>
{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
|last= Wirth
|first= Hugh J.
|year= 2002
|volume= 16
|id2=reid-isabelle-bruce-belle-11503
|title=Reid, Isabelle Bruce (Belle) (1883–1945)
|access-date= 30 December 2014
}}
</ref> She established a practice in [[Balwyn, Victoria]] close to the family home.

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