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About Gavin Reid
- Gavin Hunter Reid OBE (born 24 May 1934) was the Bishop of Maidstone from 1992 until 2001. Primary school : part educated at Blackheath and Kidbrooke C of E school . Reid was educated at John Roan School in Greenwich and King's College London.
- Ordained deacon in 1960 and priest in 1961, after a curacy at St Paul’s East Ham he served in a succession of administrative posts for the Church Pastoral Aid Society before his ordination to the episcopate.
- He is a prolific author and his works include The Gagging of God (1969), A New Happiness (1974), To Reach a Nation (1987), Our Place in his Story (1994) and To Canterbury with Love.
- He was awarded the OBE in 1999 for his contribution to the Millennium celebrations.
- He retired to Beccles in 2001 and is an assistant bishop in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
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