Fonds F963 - Escott Meredith Reid fonds

Escott Meredith Reid, diplomat, was born in Campbellford, Ontario in 1905 and was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. He was National Secretary of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1932-1938. In 1938, he joined the Department of External Affairs and held various senior posts in Ottawa and Washington between 1938 and 1952. He was High Commissioner to India from 1952 to 1957 and Ambassador to Germany from 1958 to 1962. Reid was Director of Operations in South Asia and the Middle East for the World Bank from 1962 to 1965. In 1965, he was appointed the first principal of Glendon College of York University, Toronto, and served until the end of 1969. During the same period, Reid was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. From 1970 to 1972, he was a consultant at the Canadian International Development Agency. In 1971, Reid was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada. He is the author of "Strengthening the World Bank", 1973; "Time of Fear and Hope: The Making of the North Atlantic Treaty", 1977; "Envoy to Nehru", 1981; "On Duty: A Canadian at the Making of the United Nations, 1945-1946", 1983; "Hungary and Suez 1956", 1986 and "Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid", 1989. He died in 1999.