History of the Reed family in Europe and America

38 ORIGIN OF THE NAME,
month, may have been son of Richard, and grandson of
William and Rebecca.
Sir John Reade of Bodington in the county of Glou-
cester, Knt., had Dorothy, who married Lord Oliver St.
John.
Thomas Read was admitted LL.D., May 8, 1638, of New
' College. He afterwards was a great royalist ; and, by his
majesty, was nominated Principal of Magdalen College, on
the flight of Wilkinson to the Parliament. Afterwards he
changed his religion for that of Rome, lived beyond sea,
and wrote certain matters against Dr. Edward Bangor.
Thomas Rhcad, M.A., of Aberdeen in Scotland, was an
author of distinction.
Alexander Rhead, M.A., of Aberdeen, was created Doctor
of Physic in the House of Convocation, by virtue of letters of
King James I. This learned Scot, who was afterwards one
of the College of Physicians in London, and a brother of the
Company of Barber-Chirurgeons, has written and published
" A Description of the Body of Man," and also " Chirogical
Lectures " on tumors and ulcers. He was afterwards mini-
ster of Yeatley in Hampshire, where he died in 1628.
Thomas Rede, Rector of Agotte St. Lawrence, lost his
living ; and his family was reduced to such necessities, that
some of them came to be maintained by the public charity
of the Corporation for Ministers' Widows. One of this name
was Rector of Offley in 1617.
John Reade of New College was Fellow of Wykcham
College, and made Doctor of Decrees, Jan. 29, 1507. It
was granted to Mr. John Rede, M.A., Bachelor of Divinity,
and Warden of Wykeham College, near Winchester, that
he be created D.D. by a cap put on his head by Dr. Faunte-
roy, the commissioner, the proctor, and two masters. Ho
had been tutor to Prince Arthur ; was then Canon of Chi-
chester ; afterwards Warden of New College in Oxon ; and