Gordon Reid (Governor)

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Professor Gordon Stanley Reid, AC (22 September 1923 - 26 October 1989) was Governor of Western Australia from 1984 to 1989.

Educated at Hurstville Boys High School in New South Wales from 1934 to 1937, Professor Reid later worked in Parliament House, Canberra while studying for his Commerce degree. He then travelled to England where he obtained his Master's Degree and his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the London School of Economics. He won a Nuffield Scholarship.

Prior to serving as Governor, Professor Reid lectured at Adelaide University and served at the University of Western Australia as Vice-Chancellor (1978-82) and Professor of Politics (1966-70, 1974-78, 1983-84). He was the author and joint author of various books and publications on Australian politics including:

The politics of financial control (1966)
Out of the wilderness: the return of Labor (1974)
The Western Australian elections (1974)
The premiers of Western Australia, 1890-1982 (1982)

As part of the Australian parliament's bicentenary publications project, Professor Reid, assisted by Dr Martin Forrest, was commissioned to write a history of the Parliament.

In 1986 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).