Gordon Reid (governor)

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Gordon Stanley Reid (born September 22, 1923 in Sydney , Australia , † October 26, 1989 in Perth ) was an Australian political scientist, professor of political science and from 1984 to 1989 governor of the state of Western Australia .

Life

Reid was born in 1923 in Hurstville , a district in the south-west of Sydney. During the Second World War he served in England as an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and met his wife Ruth. After the war he studied at the London School of Economics and then worked in the administration of the Australian House of Representatives . He later received his PhD from the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford .

From 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 resigned from the post of governor due to cancer , which he succumbed in October of the same year.

Publications (selection)

  • 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)

Awards

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  • Ken Spillman: A Gentle Man: Memoirs of Professor Gordon Reid, 1923-1989 . Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, Perth 1990, ISBN 0-9589701-1-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reid, Gordon Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian political scientist, professor of political science and governor of the state of Western Australia (1984–1989)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1989
Place of death Perth