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Dick Reid with his OBE and, right, as a young man at work on a carving Internationally-renowned York sculptor and stone carver Dick Reid, whose work can be seen at York Minster, Windsor Castle and Highgrove, has died following a short illness. He was 86. Mr Reid, who had a workshop in York, also worked on memorials in Westminster Abbey to John Betjeman and the Countess of Pembroke - and on numerous churches in York and further afield. Dick Reid was born in 1934 in Newcastle upon Tyne. He excelled at arts and crafts at school and was spotted by Ralph Hedley, who offered him an apprenticeship as a carver in stone and wood.