REID, SIR WEMYSS

REID, SIR WEMYSS
   journalist and man of letters, born in Newcastle-on-Tyne; editor of the Leeds Mercury (1870-86), and of the Speaker since 1890; has written novels and biographies; is President of the Institute of Journalists, and was knighted in 1894; b. 1842.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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