• Born 12 August 1799, son of Anne Boileau (1769-1854) and John Reid.
• Governor of Bombay. Left India in 1844. Awarded M.C.S..
• Married firstly Emily Rogers, secondly his second cousin Jane Boileau.
• Died 27 October 1878, aged 79.

Jane Boileau was daughter of Samuel Brandrum Boileau (1801-1860), who was son of John Theophilus Boileau (1755-1817), brother of Solomon Boileau (1745-1810)

Children

With Emily Rogers:

1. Lestock Reid (1826-1899)
2. Emily Georgina Reid (1821-1899)
3. James Henry Reid (1829-1890)
4. Maria Katherine Reid (b.1830)

With Jane Boileau:

1. George Boileau Reid (b.1843)
2. Julia Fanny Eliza Reid (b.1844)
3. Jane Florence Harriet Reid (b.1845)
4. Edward Jervis Reid (b.1847)
5. Ellis Ramsay Reid (b.1850)
6. William Crawford Reid (1852-1888)
7. Frank Lumsden Reid (b.1853)
8. Claude Gordon Reid (b.1854)
9. Arthur Morse Reid (b.1854) - twin of the above
10. Ada Ruth Erskine Reid (b.1857)
11. Percy Frith Reid (1859-1883)
12. Ethel Emma Louise Reid (1860-1900)
13. Mary Annie Rachel Reid (b.1864)