Background
The eldest son of Henry Draper Reed, he grew up and was educated privately in the south London suburb of Sydenham.
The eldest son of Henry Draper Reed, he grew up and was educated privately in the south London suburb of Sydenham.
Reed was defeated in 1892 by the Liberal William Sproston Caine, but regained the seat in 1895. On 3 October 1896 Reed was involved in an accident when his pony trap overturned near his residence "Woodcliff", Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He initially appeared only to be suffering from concussion, but died two days later from an apparent cerebral hemorrhage aged 41.
He first stood for Parliament at the 1885 general election, when he was unsuccessful candidate in the new Western division of Bradford. All of Bradford"s three seats were won by Liberals. At the 1886 general election, he stood instead in the Eastern division, and won the seat with a majority of 3.4% of the votes.
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Bradford East for two terms in the 1880s and 1890s. He moved to northern England, initially to Darlington in County Durham, where he was both a justice of the peace and member of the school board.
Politically Reed was a Conservative, and was a long-term member of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.
