Robert Lovell Reid
Robert Lovell Reid, FRSE, also known as Bob Reid, was an Australian agricultural scientist.Life
He was born in Melbourne on 11 April 1921. His family then moved to Sydney in 1928 where he was educated at Fort Street High School. He then studied Agricultural Science at the University of Sydney, graduating BSc. in 1944. He then went to England to gain a doctorate at Cambridge University.
In the 1960s, he went to Scotland as assistant director of the Hill Farming Research Organisation and was later promoted to be its Director.
In 1967, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Boddie, Arthur Wannop, Sir Stephen J. Watson, and John Stamp.
He was the founding professor of Agricultural Science at La Trobe University in 1968. The R. L. Reid Building in the university is named after him.
He retired in 1979 and died in Canberra on 23 September 1996.Family
He was married to Catherine Helen Macgregor. Their children included Ronia Julie Reid.Publications
