Lestock Robert Reid (12 August 1799 – 27 October 1878) was an English colonial administrator who was
Governor of Bombay
Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. The date of city's founding is unclear—historians tr ...
from 1846 to 1847 during the rule of the
East India Company.
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.
One of his daughters, Jane Florence Harriet Reid, married
Thomas Livingstone Learmonth
Thomas Livingstone Learmonth of Parkhill (2 May 1818 – 28 October 1903) was an early settler of Australia, of Scots descent, who established himself as a squatter on land around Ballarat, Victoria, in the 1830s.
Life
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References
Governors of Bombay
1799 births
1878 deaths
People from Guildford
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