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| | Peter Reid - Telegraph |
 | | Peter Reid, the architectural historian who has died aged 70, was an unsung hero of country-house conservation, a genealogical genius and an endearing eccentric with a capacity to inspire both affection and exasperation. |
 | | Reid's pioneering researches helped to lay the foundation of "The Destruction of the Country House" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974, which made a phenomenal impact and effectively kick-started the "Heritage" movement, as it is known today. |
 | | Later in the 1970s, Reid compiled the second volume of Burke's Guide to Country Houses, edited by Hugh MontgomeryMassingberd, a ground-breaking, if over-ambitious, series designed to give a visual, architectural and social record of some 12,000 family seats, standing and demolished, in a dozen volumes, which, as things turned out, ran to only four. |
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