Editing Forrest Reid (section)

==Early life and education==
Born in Belfast, he was the youngest son of a [[Protestant]] family of twelve, six of whom survived. He was educated at the [[Royal Belfast Academical Institution]]. His father, Robert Reid (1825–1881), was the manager of a felt works, having failed as a shipowner at [[Liverpool]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/SpecialCollections/FileStore/Filetoupload,809270,en.pdf |title=The Correspondence of E. M. Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |first1=Brian G |last1=Caraher |first2=Emma |last2=Hegarty |website=[[Queen's University Belfast]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624082751/https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/SpecialCollections/FileStore/Filetoupload,809270,en.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and came from a well-established upper-middle-class Ulster family; his mother, Frances Matilda, was his father's second wife. She was the daughter of Captain Robert Parr, of the [[54th Regiment of Foot]], of the landed gentry Parr family of [[Shropshire]], related to [[Catherine Parr]], last wife of [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]].<ref>''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. II'', 4th edition, Sir Bernard Burke, 1863, p. 1153, Parr of Parr pedigree</ref><ref>''The Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid, 1875-1947'', Brian Taylor, Cambridge University Press, 1980, p. 8</ref><ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35714|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/35714|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/cddb76c9-fbe6-3b99-9f7a-7a2fe31bbabb|title=Forrest Reid Collection - Archives Hub|access-date=17 December 2021|archive-date=21 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121193057/https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/cddb76c9-fbe6-3b99-9f7a-7a2fe31bbabb|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="UE">{{cite web | title=Guide to Print Collections – Forrest Reid Collection | work=University of Exeter | url=http://library.exeter.ac.uk/special/guides/books/reid.html | accessdate=5 July 2009 | archive-date=8 December 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208094641/http://library.exeter.ac.uk/special/guides/books/reid.html | url-status=live }}</ref> [[File:Forrest Reid plaque, Belfast - geograph.org.uk - 1620230.jpg|right|thumb|100px|A plaque reading "Forrest Reid lived here 1924–1947" on a house at 13 Ormiston Crescent, Belfast.]] Reid entered [[Christ's College, Cambridge]], in 1905, graduating BA in medieval and modern languages in 1908. He returned to Belfast, and met [[E. M. Forster]], who remained a lifelong friend, in February 1912. After graduation Forster continued to visit Reid, who was then settled back in Belfast. In 1952, Forster traveled to Belfast to unveil a plaque commemorating Forrest Reid's life (at 13 Ormiston Crescent).