Thomas Reade
Sir Thomas Reade was a British army officer during the Napoleonic Wars, known also as a collector.
In 1799, at the age of sixteen, he ran away from home to enlist in the army and participate in campaigns in Holland, Egypt and America, as well as postings across Europe. Reade was also a scholar and antiquarian and collected a range of artefacts, much of which are held in the British Museum today.
He married Agnes Clogg on 8 September 1824.
He was appointed consul general in Tunis on 10 May 1836, and died at his residence there on 1 August 1849.
