Summary
Edward Anderton Reade, CB (15 March 1807 – 12 February 1886)[1],[2] was a British civil servant in India who served in Bengal from 1826 to 1860.[3]
Career edit
On 10 February 1835 Reade was appointed as Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Belah.[4] On 8 September 1836 he was appointed as Magistrate & Collector of Goruckpore.[5] He was given additional responsibility, on 24 October 1836, as Deputy Opium Agent for management of provision of opium in Goruckpore.[6] He remained collector of Goruckpore (at least) till October 1844.[7]
During 1857 Reade was Commissioner of the Fifth Division and Commissioner of the Benares Division.[8] From 10 September 1857 to 30 September 1857 he held the position of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces as an In charge (acting).[9] He retired from the East India Company in 1860 and returned to the family home in Ipsden, Oxfordshire, where he served as a magistrate for Oxfordshire and Berkshire.[10]
He was a brother of the novelist Charles Reade, and the father of the New Zealand cricketer Lawrence Reade.[11]
Works edit
His works include:
- Minute on the Roads in the Azimgurh District
References edit
- ^ The patronage bureaucracy in north India By Peter Penner
- ^ New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors, Author names starting with Re
- ^ Bengal By Calcutta Historical Society
- ^ The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British India and its dependencies #244
- ^ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany By East India Company #203
- ^ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany By East India Company #292
- ^ Parliamentary papers By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
- ^ Parliamentary papers By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons #105
- ^ The India List and India Office List By India Office, Great Britain #130
- ^ "E. A. Reade, 'The Benefice of North Stoke ...'". St John's College. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Mr. Lawrence E. Reade". Evening Post. LXXX (41): 5. 17 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
External links edit
- INDIA-L Archives
- English village architecture By R. J. Brown
- Bulletins and other state intelligence #2149
- Empire and Information By Christopher Alan Bayly
- Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue By Great Exhibition, Robert Ellis, Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 #859