Andrew Reid

Andrew Reid (1751–1841) was a Scottish brewer and distiller. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1815. Early life He was the son of John Reid of Tain (baptised 1721 – 1779) and his wife Mary Ross. He had two brothers, John, a merchant, and David, an officer in the Bengal Army. Reid spent some of his early life in India; he made a voyage as supercargo on the Prince de Kaunitz, an Indiaman of the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste and Antwerp, in the later 1770s. From 1782, when he married, Reid was a partner in the London firm Gildart & Reid with his father-in-law. Andrew and David Reid were associates in the opium trade with the merchant William Fairlie. Reid became a wine and spirit merchant, and distiller. From 1790 to 1793, when he left, he was the London resident of John Fergusson & Co., in partnership with John Fergusson and Fairlie in India, David Scott and others.