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 Cyril Herbert Stafford Reis was born on 5 February 1888 at 49 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh,
the son of
Alphonse Louis and Marian
(Dugan) Reis. He married Lucía Camila Pereyra. Cyril died on 18
June 1940 at Laguna Larga, Rio Segundo, Province of Cordoba, Argentina.
Cyril and Lucía belong to Reis Generation Three; their children belong to
Reis
Generation Four and are:
- Hugo Alberto
- Victor Arnaldo
NOTE: The following is a translation from English into Spanish and then back
into English of a reference provided for Cyril by his Edinburgh University
professor Robert Wallace. To read the original Spanish language version
click here.
(Telegraphic address:
“Wallace, University, Edinburgh”). Department of Agriculture.
University of Edinburgh, thirteenth of June, Nineteen twenty-two. I
certify that Mr. Cyril H. S. Reis was an outstanding student in the
Department of Agriculture of this university. After having completed
his studies over four years with much success, he was awarded the
diploma from the College of Agriculture of Edinburgh and Eastern
Scotland. He acquired a complete knowledge of the practical side of
rural labor in the best way possible, by taking part in all the work
carried out during the different seasons in many of the best
administered rural establishments in the counties of Encardine,
Forfra, Aberdeen and Selkirk. Mr. Reis was an outstanding
personality much admired by his peers, and exerted a powerful and
especially positive influence within the department in my charge. He
was elected in succession to various posts in the Agricultural
Society of the University, and was president during the most
prosperous year that the society has had in its fifty years of
existence. Subsequently, he has had a very prosperous career in the
Republic of Argentina. In February of Nineteen eleven, he obtained
employment in the Santa Fe Land Company, a company that was later
acquired by the Compañia Forestal de Tierras. American Lloyd later
purchased the most important landholdings of the latter company. The
fact that these different companies maintained his employ and named
him successively to various important posts is proof of Mr. Reis’
competence. He has particularly ample experience in what is referred
to as the handling and sale of cattle to the Frigorifics. Early in
nineteen-sixteen, he submitted his resignation in order to go to war
at the rank of officer, lending his services to the Lothian and
Border Horse regiments. Upon returning to Argentinean Republic in
March of Nineteen nineteen, he was named steward of an estate three
leagues in size in the province of Cordoba; recently he left that
post, after the estate was sold. Mr. Reis’ administrative experience
has been has been ample and prosperous. I can recommend him with
utmost confidence as a most competent person, and I hope that his
attempts to obtain another post be crowned with much success.
(SIGNED): ROBERT WALLACE. Professor of Agriculture and Rural
Economy.
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The preceding translation is a faithful and exact translation of a
certificate that I received. Buenos Aires, fifth of September,
Nineteen twenty-two.
(Signed) W.S Tuker
National Public Translator |
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