Robert Reid (New Zealand politician)

Robert Caldwell Reid
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hokitika
In office
5 September 1879 – 8 November 1881
Preceded byEdmund Barff
Seymour Thorne George
Succeeded byGerard George Fitzgerald
Personal details
Born4 February 1839
Wick, Caithness, Scotland
Died18 March 1897(1897-03-18) (aged 58)
Westport, New Zealand
Resting placeMiddle Orowaiti Cemetery
OccupationNewspaper proprietor

Robert Caldwell Reid (4 February 1839 – 18 March 1897) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the West Coast, New Zealand. Born in Scotland and attracted by the gold rushes in Victoria and the West Coast, he was later the proprietor of a series of newspapers.