Author: Read, William
Biography:
READ, William (1795?-1866: ODNB) pseudonym Eustace
The eldest son of John Moutray Read and his wife Anne Beresford, he was probably born at Union Park, County Laois (formerly Queen’s County), Ireland. He contributed to the Literary Gazette as “Eustace” and attracted the notice of the editor, William Jerdan. Reade gives his wife’s name as Fanny Orr but no record of the marriage has been located; they had children including at least two sons. He lived at Tullychin, County Down, and rose to Lieutenant Colonel in command of the North Down Rifles. He died at Nice on 26 Dec. 1866. His only other publication is Sketches from Dover Castle (1859). The Hill of Caves (about the Giant's Causeway) includes “Effusion of Feeling on the Lamented Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales” (8 pages) which may have been published separately in 1817. (ODNB 12 Oct. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 12 Oct. 2021; Compton Reade, A Record of the Redes of Barton Court, Berks. [1899]; Freeman’s Journal 5 Jan. 1866) SR