Donald Reid (c. 1850 – 3 September 1922) was a solicitor, farmer and politician who lived in Milton, Otago New Zealand.
Donald Reid was born, probably in Dunedin where he was baptised, the eldest son of the 15 children of Scottish parents, Charles Reid (1828–1897), founder of Standard Insurance and his wife Charlotte Thyne Young (1830–1904).
Educated at Otago Boys' High School[1] he married in 1885 Alicia Charlotte (1862–1933), the eldest daughter of F C Fulton then of Napier formerly of Caversham.
[7] He represented the Bruce electorate from an August 1885 by-election, following the resignation of Robert Gillies, to December 1887 when he was defeated in that election by J C Anderson.
He was survived by his widow and three sons: Frank a Dunedin motor vehicle importer and distributor, Donald a Milton farmer and Gordon a Hamilton architect.