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d. 1921
An English clergyman who also wrote for young readers, he is best remembered for turning the insect world into playful verse. His best-known work, Comic Insects, mixes humor, rhyme, and a gentle curiosity about nature.
Francis Andrew Spilsbury Reid, often listed as F. A. S. Reid, was an English clergyman. Sources available here identify him as having been born in October 1848 and dying on August 12, 1921.
He is known in public-domain book catalogs and audiobook listings for Comic Insects, a light, imaginative work for children. In that book, insects are given voices and personalities, creating a playful introduction to the natural world through verse.
Reliable biographical detail on his wider life is limited in the sources I could confirm during this search, so it is safest to remember him as a late 19th- and early 20th-century clerical writer whose surviving reputation rests mainly on his charming nature-themed writing for younger readers.