William Reid

William Reid , Military and Meteorologist, born with Kinglassie county of Fife in Scotland the April 25th 1791 and deceased the October 31st 1858 with London.

It entered to the Royal Military Academy of Woolich in 1806 to become second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers at its exit in 1809. It was initially posted in the Iberian peninsula under Wellington where it was useful with honor. In 1831, it was sent to Barbados, after a hurricane had devastated it on August 10th, for the rebuilding. Its interests for these storms was then waked up and it began with colliger data on the trajectories of these Tempête S in both hemisphere S in collaboration with William Redfield.

In 1834, of return in England, it off wrote the results of its research in the book An Attempt to develop the Law Storms by means off Facts, arranged according to Place and Time, and hence to not out because off the Variable Winds which it made publish in 1838. This book was republished several times and translates into several languages.

In January 1839, it was named governor of Barbados where it sought to improve the economic conditions and social. He was president of the exécitif committee of the Great Exhibition (1851) of London and was made knight for his services. In 1851, it was named governor and commander-in-chief of Malta where it continued the same type of government as in Barbados. In these two places, it made put, inter alia, of the barometers in the public places to inform arrival of the storms.

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