Joseph Bancroft Reade

Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade FRS (5 April 1801 - 12 December 1870) was an English clergyman, amateur scientist and pioneer of photography.

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    “How so ere, my man
    Shall reade a piece of virgil, tacitus,
    livie, or some better booke to us,
    Of which wee’ll speake our minds, amidst our meate;
    And Ile professe no verses to repeate:”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)