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Ryan McDougall

Tributes paid to late historian who was ‘gifted leader of blind people’

Tributes have poured in for a blind Scottish historian and author who died aged 87 after a short illness.

Dr Fred Reid, originally from Glasgow, died on March 29 and, on Thursday April 17, his son and others whose lives he touched throughout his years, including former prime minister Gordon Brown, paid homage to his character and works.

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