Portrait of Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801-1870) Size:Standard: 6 x 4in In the 18th century John

In the 18th century John Wesley preached there and Captain James Cook was one of the congregation

The rectory

View of St Bride

29th October 1976

Portrait of Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801-1870) Size:Standard: 6 x 4in In the 18th century JohnHalf length portrait of Joseph Bancroft Reade seated in front of a table upon which rests a book with a clasp and upon a glass laboratory flask and lenses [?] held in Bancroft's left hand. What may be a quill held in the right hand is just visible at the lower edge of the photograph. Bancroft wears a dark suit and white shirt with cravat; a lens is worn by chain around his neck. Inscribed in pencil lower left 'The Rev. J. B. Reade FRS' and lower right