Lawrence Edward Reade (8 November 1846 – 17 August 1910) was a New Zealand solicitor and

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for

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and

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between the 1869–70 and 1876–77 seasons.

Early life and family

Lawrence Reade was born in

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, where his father,

Edward Anderton Reade Edward Anderton Reade, (15 March 1807 – 12 February 1886), was a British civil servant in India who served in Bengal from 1826 to 1860. Career On 10 February 1835 Reade was appointed as Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Belah. On 8 ...

, was an administrator for the

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in the

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. One of Lawrence's uncles was the novelist

Charles Reade Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for '' The Cloister and the Hearth''. Life Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at leas ...

. Lawrence attended

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where he played in the school cricket XI in his final year,Lawrence Reade
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. Retrieved 14 December 2023.) before moving to New Zealand in 1869 and completing his legal studies in

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. He moved to

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in 1873, and in 1875 was

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Cricket career

Reade was a batsman and a "right-hand medium-paced bowler, with a graceful delivery". Playing for Otago against Canterbury in 1870–71 he top-scored in each innings with 33 and 22 and also had Otago's best bowling figures of 4 for 73. He made his highest score of 38 against Canterbury in 1873–74, when he put on a partnership of 96 for the second wicket in a match in which Canterbury's two innings totalled only 116. When James Lillywhite's XI made short work of

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in 1876–77, Reade, Southland's captain, top-scored in each innings, with 8 and 10. He retained his interest in cricket as a player and an umpire for the rest of his life.

Later career and personal life

Reade married Margaret Hannah Booth in

on 15 March 1876. They lived in several places in New Zealand and Australia. He was elected mayor of the Borough of East

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in 1884, and practiced law in the city. During the 1880s he served as a commissioner with the Supreme Courts of Tasmania and New South Wales and later ran the Intestacy Department at the Public Trust Office in Wellington until 1902 when he settled in Foxton, Manawatu, where Reade worked as a solicitor. They had three sons. Margaret died on 14 August 1908, aged 60. On 2 July 1910, while visiting a son in

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, Lawrence fell from a tram and suffered a head injury. After an apparently successful operation he began to suffer fits and died after a second operation on 17 August aged 63.

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