Gordon Reid (governor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gordon Reid (governor)

Australian academic

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 26-Oct-1989

Profession: professor, governor, university teacher

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gordon Stanley Reid, (22 September 1923 – 26 October 1989) was an Australian academic who served as the 26th Governor of Western Australia.
Born in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, he was educated at Hurstville Boys High School before enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a flying officer during the Second World War.
After the conclusion of the war, Reid studied at the London School of Economics in England, later winning a scholarship to Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
Having obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy, Reid lectured at the University of Adelaide before serving as the vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1978 to 1982.
Appointed governor in 1984, he served in the position until 1989, resigning a month before his death from cancer.