Gavin Hunter Reid OBE (born 24 May 1934) was the Bishop of Maidstone from 1992 until 2001. Reid's post was in effect the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, since the Bishop of Dover is the de facto diocesan due to the Archbishop of Canterbury's other duties."Reid, Rt Rev. Gavin Hunter", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 , accessed 9 July 2012
Reid was educated at The John Roan School in Greenwich and King's College London. Ordained deacon in 1960 and priest in 1961,Crockford's clerical directory (London, Church House 1995) after a curacy at St Paul's Church, East Ham he served in a succession of administrative posts for the Church Pastoral Aid Society before his ordination to the episcopate. He is a prolific author and his works include The Gagging of God (1969), A New Happiness (1974), To Reach a Nation (1987), Our Place in his Story (1994) and To Canterbury with Love. He was awarded the OBE in 1999OBE award for his contribution to the Millennium celebrations. He retiredSuccession details to Beccles in 2001 and is an assistant bishop in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.Daily Telegraph, p. 30, 17 November 2008.
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