W. Stanford Reid

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = The Reverend

| name = W. Stanford Reid

| image =

| alt =

| caption =

| birth_name = William Stanford Reid

| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|09|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|12|28|1913|09|13|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| nationality = Canadian

| spouse =

| awards =

| module = {{Infobox clergy |child=yes

| religion = Christianity (Presbyterian)

| church = Presbyterian Church in Canada

| ordained = 1941{{Cite web|url=https://www.renewal-fellowship.ca/63/|title = W. Stanford Reid — A Classic Case of Exclusion|date = 12 October 1999}}

| congregations =

| offices_held =

}}

| module2 = {{Infobox academic |child=yes

| alma_mater = {{ubl | Westminster Theological Seminary | University of Pennsylvania}}

| thesis_title = The Growth of Anti-Papalism in Fifteenth Century Scotland

| thesis_year = 1941

| school_tradition =

| doctoral_advisor = Arthur Charles Howland{{cite web |last1=MacLeod |first1=A. Donald |title=Stanford Reid's Legacy for Christian Academics |url=https://csph.ca/assets/csph-2013-papers---macleod---stanford-reid.pdf |website=The Canadian Society of Presbyterian History |access-date=6 May 2022 |page=7}}

| academic_advisors =

| influences =

| era =

| discipline = History

| sub_discipline =

| workplaces = {{ubl | McGill University | University of Guelph}}

| doctoral_students =

| notable_students =

| main_interests =

| notable_works =

| notable_ideas =

| influenced =

}}

| signature =

| signature_alt =

}}

William Stanford Reid (13 September 1913 – 28 December 1996), usually cited as W. Stanford Reid, was a professor of history at McGill University and the University of Guelph and a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister. He held a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1941). He also had a divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, studying under the Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen.[http://www.bible-researcher.com/predestination.html Predestination by W. S. Reid]

Notes

He was the son of Rev. William Dunn Reid and Daisy Sanford. His brother was Stewart Reid - Montreal, Quebec. His parents were Joseph Reid b. 1838 and Janet Dunn b. 1863. His grandparents were some of the first Scottish settlers in the Eastern Townships of Quebec arriving in the late 1820s. His grandparents were William Reid and Jean Gould and Andrew Dunn and Elisabeth Oliver.A Genealogy of the Reid Family by W.D. Reid, 1938