Thomas Bertram Wallace Reid (10 July 1901 – 30 August 1981), more commonly referred to as T. B. W. Reid, was a British Romance philologist from Armagh, Northern Ireland, who spent most of his life in England.
[2] Thomas Bertram Wallace Reid was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1901.
[3] Reid taught at the University of Manchester for much of his early career before moving to Oxford, where he was the Professor of the Romance Languages between 1958 and 1968.
[4] After retiring from academic duties in 1968, Reid remained involved with ANTS, primarily by editing texts for publication.
[5] During the 1970s, he helped to edit the Anglo-Norman Dictionary, and he completed a study of The Tristan of Béroul, which was published in 1972.