Person:Robert Reading (1)
Sir Robert Reading, 1st Baronet FRS
 
bur.25 Mar 1689 Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England
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  • H.  Sir Robert Reading, 1st Baronet FRS - 1689
  • W.  Jane Hannay - 1684
m. Abt 1662
  1. Elizabeth ReadingAbt 1668 - 1754
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Name Sir Robert Reading, 1st Baronet FRS
Gender Male
Education[2] 28 Mar 1655 Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandRobert Reading, arm., matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford.
Degree[2] 14 Dec 1658 Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandRobert earned a Bachelor of Arts.
Education[2] 1659 The Temple, London City, Middlesex, EnglandInner Temple student
Marriage Abt 1662 to Jane Hannay
Other[3] 2 Nov 1671 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Title (nobility)[1] 27 Aug 1675 Dublin, co. Dublin, Ireland“Robert Reading, of Dublin, Esq.” was created a Baronet of the Kingdom of Ireland by Charles II, by patent at Dublin, the Privy Seal being dated at Windsor, 11 Aug. 1675. At his death, the Baronetcy became extinct.
Burial[1] 25 Mar 1689 Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, Englands.p.m.
Reference Number? Q7349188?
This person does not have any known living patrilineal descendants. Elizabeth was his only child.


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Sir Robert Reading, first and last Baronet Reading, (c. 1640 – c. March 1689) built several privately owned lighthouses in Ireland under letters patent from Charles II of England.[1]

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1658.

He was elected as an MP in the Irish House of Commons for Ratoath (1662–1666), but was attainted by the Irish Parliament of James II (1689).

He married Jane Coote, daughter of Sir Robert Hannay c. 1662. She was the Dowager Countess of Mountrath [1] as the widow of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath.[2] They had one child, Elizabeth, who married James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1671. He was made 1st Baronet Reading of Dublin on 27 August 1675.

On his death he was buried in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 READING (cr. 1675) I., in Cokayne, George Edward. Complete baronetage, 1611-1800. (Exeter [England]: W. Pollard, 1900-1906)
    4: 208.

    See transcript.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Foster, Joseph, and University of Oxford. Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. (Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1891-1892)
    3: 1242.

    “Reading, Robert, arm. Christ Church, matric. 28 March, 1655, B.A. 14 Dec., 1658; perhaps student of Inner Temple 1659, as of London, gent. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.”

  3. ↑ Reading, Sir Robert (c 1640-1689), in The Royal Society. Fellowship Directory
    code NA5739, accessed 25 Feb. 2016.
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