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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 174, 20 July 1878, Page 4

There is a young baronet at present in London whose case dpgervea commiseration (s'lys th • Whitehall Review). Sir Chandos Stunhope Hoskynß Readp, ninih baronet, h the son of a Madras officer, and great nephew of the late Sir J.jhn Chandos Eaude, of Shipfon Court, Oxfordshire, and Oddington Park, Gloucestershire, who, in hifi dotage, disinherited hia heir iv favor of his footman, a mim of the name of WukefieM who has since assumed the name of Rscde. The story of Sir John Rende's life remains yet to be told. He inherited large iauiied eßtates at Berks, Oxon, and Gloucestershire, was a Harrow and Christ Church man, aud married a niece of the then Lord Elibank. For years his drunken habits were a hy-word, nnd when he served the office of Hi'nh Sheriff, at a dinner at the "Star" at Oxford his iutoxicntion took the form of dancing on the table. Hid wife died of ; his only son Coraptou, of the vice to which he whs addicted. Lastly he was Buepected of having got rid of his butler — a man named Siuden —by foul play, and for some months after his death the butler's wilow inscribed on his tombstoue the worJe, '•it was h motral hand that did the deed." This led to a coronei'a inquest, but the body on being exhumed was found to be decomposed, and told no tale. For the last twenty years of liia life he lived at Shipton Court in complete selusion, his only associate being Whkefield, to whom he bequeathed his entire possessions, including the pictures of Chief Justice Reude, temp. Henry VII., and of Sir Compton Reade, the first baronet of the second treation ; together with valuabla records illustrating the past history of a family which, besides the.Chief Justicec, counts among its worthies Mr John Edmund Reade, the poet,- and Mr Churles Reade the novelist and dramatist, hir Chondoß Reade, is engaged at present in ascertaining whether there are sufficient grounds to enahle him to move the law courts iv any special direction; and I am informed that, should the case ba thoroughly exploited, some very strange and dramatic details will be made public. It should be added, that Sir Candoß Reade'a rijjht to the baronetcy has been already decided by a law suit in bia favour, -the data of creation be'mg 1660.