Lestock Robert Reid
Lestock Robert Reid FRGS (12 August 1799 – 27 October 1878) was an English colonial administrator who was Governor of Bombay from 1846–1847 during the British Raj.[1]
He served in the Bombay Civil Service from 1817–50 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
- ^ Office, Great Britain India (1898). The India List and India Office List for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 123. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Extracts from the Proceedings of the Society". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Asiatic Society of Bombay.: 139 January 1850.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1895). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry. Harrison. p. 664. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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