Lestock Robert Reid

{{Short description|English colonial administrator}}

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Lestock Robert Reid {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRGS}} (12 August 1799 – 27 October 1878) was an English colonial administrator who was Governor of Bombay from 1846 to 1847 during the rule of the East India Company.{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=Great Britain India |title=The India List and India Office List for ... |date=1898 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G35PAAAAYAAJ&q=Lestock+Robert+Reid&pg=PA123 |accessdate=10 July 2018 |language=en}}

He served in the Bombay Civil Service from 1817 to 1850 and was President of the Bombay Branch of The Asiatic Society from 1846 to 1849.{{cite journal |title=Extracts from the Proceedings of the Society |journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay |date=January 1850 |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tiQuuHPWEIC&pg=RA1-PA139 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bombay. |language=en}}

One of his daughters, Jane Florence Harriet Reid, married Thomas Livingstone Learmonth.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry |date=1895 |publisher=Harrison |page=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalan07burkgoog/page/n287 664] |url=https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalan07burkgoog |quote=Lestock Reid. |accessdate=10 July 2018 |language=en}}