Getty ImagesFormer presiding officer and journalist Sir George Reid has died aged 86.
His death followed a diagnosis of metastatic kidney cancer at the end of June. He died in the early hours of Tuesday, August 12, at Strathcarron Hospice in Denny.
Sir George’s family said the former SNP politician had been working with students at Stirling University up until the last few weeks of his life.
Last week, after a hospital appointment, he drove through Clackmannanshire, where he was born and raised and served as MP in the 1970s and MSP from 1999 to 2007.
Sir George was presiding officer from 2003 to 2007 and concluded the final stages of the Holyrood building project.
He worked for several newspapers and in television for the BBC, Granada Television and STV.
Sir George was known for being a champion of non-tribal progressive politics.
In 2012, he was knighted for services to Scottish politics and public life.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Daphne, his daughter Morag, his son-in-law and five grandchildren.
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