[Philip] Savile Grey Reid, son of William Reid and Louisa Margaret Barkly, was married to Amy Eleanor Prime. He was a British ornithologist who worked at the British Museum (Natural History) during the first decade of the twentieth century. During that time he compiled a Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) (1901-1912). Earlier in his career he had described "The birds of the Bermudas", originally in a ten-part series in The Field (1875), but later reprinted in Bermuda (1883).
Towards the end of the nineteenth century Reid came to South Africa with the British military, probably as a captain in the Royal Engineers, and did some ornithological work. A race of the Cape Bunting collected near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, Emberiza capensis reidi (later Fringillaria capensis reidi) was named after him by Captain George E. Shelley* in 1902.
