G. Archdall Reid

Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid KBE FRSE (7 April 1860 – 19 November 1929) was a Scottish physician, and a writer on public health and on the subject of evolution. He was interested in the effects of alcohol on society, and in the evolution of races. He was one of the first to identify alcoholism as a disease.

Life George Archdall Reid was born in Roorkee in India, on 7 April 1860, the only son of Captain Charles Auguste Reid of the 20th Bengal Native Infantry attached to the Honourable East India Company of Scotland (HEICS).

He was educated privately then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB in 1887. He then worked variously as a schoolmaster, Kauri gumdigger, stockman and hunter. In 1900 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Andrew Wilson, James Cossar Ewart and Alexander Crum Brown.

In 1919 he was created a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by King George V.

He died of angina pectoris at 20 Lennox Road South in Southsea and:

Works

(also New York : William Wood, 1902) The Principles of Heredity (1905) The Laws of Heredity (1910), Methuen and Co. Ltd London The Mnemic Theory of Heredity (1912) The Prevention of Venereal Disease (1920)