Gordon Reid (governor)

Gordon Stanley Reid ( born September 22, 1923 in Sydney, Australia, † October 26, 1989 in Perth ) was an Australian professor of political science and of 1984-89 Governor of the State of Western Australia.

Life

Reid was born in 1923 in Hurstville, a suburb in Sydney's south west. During World War II he served in England as an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and met his wife Ruth know. After the war he studied at the London School of Economics and then worked in the administration of the Australian House of Representatives. Later, he earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.

In 1966, Reid worked as a professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth and the University of Adelaide. From 1978 to 1982 he was Vice- Chancellor of the University of Western Australia.

In 1984 he was appointed Governor of Western Australia.

In August 1989 he joined because of cancer when he still died in October of the same year, back from the post of governor.

Publications (selection)

The politics of finance control ( 1966)
Out of the Wilderness: the Return of Labor (1974 )
The Western Australian elections (1974 )
The Premier of Western Australia, 1890-1982 (1982 )

Awards

Companion of the Order of Australia

Swell

Ken Spillman: A Gentle Man: Memoirs of Professor Gordon Reid, 1923-1989. Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, ISBN 0,958,970,114th

Governor (Western Australia)
Companion of the Order of Australia
Australian
University teachers ( University of Adelaide )
Born in 1923
Died in 1989
Man
University teachers ( University of Western Australia )

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