John Meredith Read
| General John Meredith Read FSA, MRIA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1837 | ||||||||
| Died | 1896 | ||||||||
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Consul General U.S. Paris [1871] US Minister to Greece, Athens [1875] | ||||||||
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proposed 1871.10.20
Notes From Elsewhere
Daily Alta California, 10 Aug. 1869
J. Meredith Reed, Jr., has received from the French Government an exequator as consul General of the United States at Paris, in the Department of Loire
John Meredith Read (21 February 1837, Philadelphia - 27 December 1896, Paris) was a United States diplomat and author.
Debussy's Marche Ecossaise dedicated to him
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External Publications
He wrote Historical Enquiry concerning Henry Hudson, which discussed Hudson's origins, and the sources of the ideas that guided that navigator (Albany, 1866). Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy; from Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau and Gibbon was published in 1897. He also made contributions to current literature, including "Hudson, Henry". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892.
