Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid KBE FRSE (7 April 1860 – 19 November 1929) was a Scottish physician,[1] and a writer on public health and on the subject of evolution.
His proposers were Sir William Turner, Andrew Wilson, James Cossar Ewart and Alexander Crum Brown.
[4] In 1919 he was created a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by King George V.[5] He died of angina pectoris at 20 Lennox Road South[6] in Southsea[3] on 19 November 1929.
Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection, with Darwin, wrote of Reid: It is refreshing to turn to Mr. Archdall Reid's volume which, though unnecessarily diffuse, is full of original ideas and acute reasoning.
This is exceedingly well done, and it contains a very forcible argument against the possibility of the inheritance of acquired characters in the higher animals, derived from the facts of cell-division and specialisation in the development of the individual.