Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Dublin, and later of London. According to the Dublin census of 1911, William Reid, son of Alexander Reid, an army doctor, was born in England circa 1884.  He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a BA degree(1) before turning to a career in architecture. During the early years of the twentieth century he was an active member of the Architectural Association of Ireland. At the end of 1910 he was taken into partnership by LAURENCE ALOYSIUS MCDONNELL LAURENCE ALOYSIUS MCDONNELL . The partnership of MCDONNELL & MCDONNELL & amp; REID which won the competition for the Iveagh Play Centre, Dublin, in 1911 and for new municipal buildings for Dublin in 1913, effectively came to an end soon after the outbreak of the First World War, when Reid enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry. After the war was over he practised in England. He retired in 1947.(2)

AAI: elected member, 1903; winner of President's Prize and Class of Design First Prize, 1905;(3) winner of Institute Prize, 1906;(4) registrar of Employment Register, 1910; vice-president, 1911-13; hon. secretary, 1911-12.
RIBA: elected associate 28 February 1921, having sat special war examination and been proposed by FREDERICK BATCHELOR FREDERICK BATCHELOR , ALBERT EDWARD MURRAY  ALBERT EDWARD MURRAY and FREDERICK GEORGE HICKS FREDERICK GEORGE HICKS ;(5) elected fellow, 1931.(6)

Addresses: Work: 9 Hume Street, Dublin, 1910; 20 Ely Place, 1911-1915; 1 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London W1, 1932.(7)
Home: 2 Wellington Road, Dublin, <=1903->=1915; Ocean Wave, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, 1917; Brown Cottage, Ovalway, Gerrard's Cross, <=1921-1923;(8) Duncombe, Landscore Road, Teignmouth, South Devon, 1954.(9)

For Irish works, see under MCDONNELL & MCDONNELL & amp; REID.



References

All information not otherwise accounted for is from AAI Green Books. A portrait photograph of Reid is in IB 55, 12 Apr 1913, 55.

(1) Thom's Directory (1915), 1558.
(2) RIBA Kalendar 1957-1958, 605.
(3) IB 47, 3 Jun 1905, 385.
(4) IB 48, 16 Jun 1906, 477; 49, 12 Jan 1907, 37.
(5) RIBAJ 28 (1920-21), 208,272.
(6) See note 2, above.
(7) A. Jarman, ed., Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970 (1987), 370).
(8) See note 5, above, and Who's Who in Architecture (1923), 205.
(9) See note 2, above.