W. Stanford Reid Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Reverend
W. Stanford Reid
Birth Name:William Stanford Reid
Birth Date:13 September 1913
Nationality:Canadian
Module:
Child:yes
Religion:Christianity (Presbyterian)
Church:Presbyterian Church in Canada
Ordained:1941[1]
Module2:
Child:yes
Thesis Title:The Growth of Anti-Papalism in Fifteenth Century Scotland
Thesis Year:1941
Doctoral Advisor:Arthur Charles Howland[2]
Discipline:History

William Stanford Reid (13 September 1913 – 28 December 1996), usually cited as W. Stanford Reid, was a professor of history at McGill University and the University of Guelph and a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister. He held a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1941). He also had a divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, studying under the Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen.[3]

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He was the son of Rev. William Dunn Reid and Daisy Sanford. His brother was Stewart Reid - Montreal, Quebec. His parents were Joseph Reid b. 1838 and Janet Dunn b. 1863. His grandparents were some of the first Scottish settlers in the Eastern Townships of Quebec arriving in the late 1820s. His grandparents were William Reid and Jean Gould and Andrew Dunn and Elisabeth Oliver.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: W. Stanford Reid — A Classic Case of Exclusion. 12 October 1999.
  2. Web site: MacLeod . A. Donald . Stanford Reid's Legacy for Christian Academics . The Canadian Society of Presbyterian History . 6 May 2022 . 7.
  3. http://www.bible-researcher.com/predestination.html Predestination by W. S. Reid
  4. A Genealogy of the Reid Family by W.D. Reid, 1938