Retirement
Read was Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1975 to 1981. He lived in Caversfield, near Bicester in Oxfordshire.
He married Sheila Morris in 1947 with whom he was to have three daughters.
General Sir Antony Read GCB, CBE, DSO, MC died on 22 September 2000.
Read more about this topic: Anthony Read (British Army Officer)
Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“He who comes into Assemblies only to gratifie his Curiosity, and not to make a Figure, enjoys the Pleasures of Retirement in a[n] ...exquisite Degree.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“Douglas. Now remains a sweet reversion—
We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Hotspur. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)