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'''Lestock Robert Reid''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=Great Britain India |title=The India List and India Office List for ... |date=1898 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G35PAAAAYAAJ&q=Lestock+Robert+Reid&pg=PA123 |accessdate=10 July 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
'''Lestock Robert Reid''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRGS}} (12 August 1799 – 27 October 1878) was an English colonial administrator who was [[Governor of Bombay]] from 1846 to 1847 during the rule of [[East India Company]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=Great Britain India |title=The India List and India Office List for ... |date=1898 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G35PAAAAYAAJ&q=Lestock+Robert+Reid&pg=PA123 |accessdate=10 July 2018 |language=en}}</ref>


He served in the Bombay Civil Service from 1817 to 1850 and was President of the [[The Asiatic Society of Mumbai|Bombay Branch]] of [[The Asiatic Society]] from 1846 –49.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Extracts from the Proceedings of the Society |journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay |date=January 1850 |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tiQuuHPWEIC&pg=RA1-PA139 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bombay. |language=en}}</ref>
He served in the Bombay Civil Service from 1817 to 1850 and was President of the [[The Asiatic Society of Mumbai|Bombay Branch]] of [[The Asiatic Society]] from 1846 –49.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Extracts from the Proceedings of the Society |journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay |date=January 1850 |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tiQuuHPWEIC&pg=RA1-PA139 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bombay. |language=en}}</ref>

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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 rule of East India Company.[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

  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.