Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet, (c.1684 - 1752) of

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, Oxfordshire was a British courtier and Whig politician who sat in the

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for 34 years from 1713 to 1747. Shipton Court at Shipton Under Wychwood - geograph

Reade was the second son of Sir Edward Reade, 2nd Baronet, of Shipton Court, and his wife Elizabeth Harby, daughter of Edward Harby of Adstone, Northamptonshire. He was the elder brother of Lieutenant-general George Reade. He succeeded to the

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and Shipton Court on the death of his elder brother, Sir Winwood Reade, 3rd Baronet, on 30 June 1692. He married Jane Mary Dutton, the daughter of

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, MP of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, on 29 October 1719.Cokayne, George E. Complete baronetage 1903
/ref> Reade first stood for Parliament at a by-election for Oxfordshire in February 1710 and was heavily defeated. At the 1713 general election, he was elected

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for

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. Reade was returned unopposed at Cricklade at the 1715 general election, but faced contests at the succeeding general elections of

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and 1734. At the 1741 general election he was caught up in a double return and was declared elected on 24 December 1741. He did not stand at the 1747 general election. Reade served as Clerk of the Household to Prince of Wales from about 1722 to 1727 and was promoted to

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when the Prince of Wales became

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in 1727 to his death. Reade died on 25 September 1752, and was referred to by Henry Pelham as ‘an old servant of the King’s, and a very honest man, but he has been declining for many years’. He and his wife had only one child,

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, who succeeded him in the baronetcy.

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