Donald Reid (1855 – 25 August 1920) was a Dunedin, New Zealand solicitor and partner in his father's stock and station agency.
[1] Educated at North Taieri District School Donald Reid junior studied law while an articled clerk with Dunedin's Smith, Anderson & Co.
Then he entered as a partner in his father's stock and station agency business, Donald Reid & Co, but after almost ten years retired from that in 1897 to resume practice as a solicitor.
[3] He was secretary of the New Zealand Bimetallic League[1] a movement related to international currencies, the gold standard and the re-monetisation of silver.
[4] On the afternoon of Wednesday 25 August 1920 Reid came in from watching the university students' Capping Carnival procession, had his lunch, returned to his practice and suddenly died in his clerk's office[2] He was near the end of his 65th year.