Lestock Robert Reid

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Lestock Robert Reid FRGS (12 August 1799 – 27 October 1878) was an English colonial administrator who was Governor of Bombay from 1846 to 1847 during the British Raj.[1]

He served in the Bombay Civil Service from 1817 to 1850 and was President of the Bombay Branch of The Asiatic Society from 1846 –49.[2]

One of his daughters, Jane Florence Harriet Reid, married Thomas Livingstone Learmonth.[3]

References[edit]

  1. Office, Great Britain India (1898). The India List and India Office List for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 123. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. "Extracts from the Proceedings of the Society". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Asiatic Society of Bombay.: 139 January 1850.
  3. Burke, Bernard (1895). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry. Harrison. p. 664. Retrieved 10 July 2018. Lestock Reid.


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