Author · Jamaica
Vic Reid
Died in 1987
Victor Stafford Reid, known as Vic Reid, was born on 1 May 1913 in Kingston. A farm overseer and then a journalist, he edited the weekly Public Opinion. An admirer of Norman Manley, he devoted a biography to him, The Horses of the Morning, in 1985. From 1974 to 1981 he chaired the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Commission; he received the Gold Musgrave Medal in 1976 and the Order of Jamaica in 1980. He died on 25 August 1987.