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Thomas Reade (1782–1849), British Napoleonic Wars officer, one of Napoleon's guards on Saint Helena and collector
* Thomas Mellard Reade (1832–1909), English geologist, architect and civil engineer
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Thomas Reade is the name of: * Thomas Reade (royalist) (1606 – March 1669), English royalist * Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet (c. 1684–1752), British courtier and longtime Member of Parliament * Thomas Reade (British Army officer) Colonel Sir Thomas Reade (1782 – 1 August 1849) was a British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars, known also as a collector. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Reade (royalist)
Thomas Reade, or Thomas Read, (1606 – March 1669) was an English royalist army officer and civil lawyer. Biography Reade was born at Linkenholt, Hampshire, in 1606. He was the second son of Robert Reade of Linkenholt, by his second wife, Mildred, sister of Sir Francis Windebank. He entered Winchester College as a scholar in 1617 (Kirby, Winchester Scholars, p. 168). Through the influence of his uncle Windebank, afterwards secretary of state, he was appointed, on 29 January 1620, Latin secretary to the crown for life (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1619–23, p. 8), and in 1624, at the king's request, a scholarship at New College was bestowed on him. He was elected a fellow in 1626. He made no serious effort to study, and caused both his uncle and the warden of the college some disquietude by his frivolities (ib. 1627–8 p. 473, 1631–3 p. 549). Upon the death of his mother, however (her will is dated 15 August 1630), and the receipt of his inheritance, Read applied himself to law, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet (c. 1684 – 1752) of Shipton Court, Oxfordshire was a British courtier and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons for 34 years from 1713 to 1747. Reade was the second son of Sir Edward Reade, 2nd Baronet, of Shipton Court, and his wife Elizabeth Harby, daughter of Edward Harby of Adstone, Northamptonshire. He was the elder brother of Lieutenant-general George Reade (MP), George Reade. He succeeded to the Reade baronets, baronetcy and Shipton Court on the death of his elder brother, Sir Winwood Reade, 3rd Baronet, on 30 June 1692. He married Jane Mary Dutton, the daughter of Sir Ralph Dutton, 1st Baronet, MP of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, on 29 October 1719. Reade first stood for Parliament at a by-election for Oxfordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Oxfordshire in February 1710 and was heavily defeated. At the 1713 British general election, 1713 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Crickla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Reade (British Army Officer)
Colonel Sir Thomas Reade (1782 – 1 August 1849) was a British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars, known also as a collector.Sir Thomas Reade (Biographical details) - British Museum In 1799, at the age of sixteen, he ran away from home to enlist in the Army and participated in campaigns in , and America, as well as postings across Europe. Major Reade served as Deputy Quartermaster General at the 1814 Siege of Genoa. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
