Background
The son of a refiner of iron, he was born on 17 September 1674 at Swin in the parish of Wombourne, Staffordshire.
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William Reading
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He matriculated at University College, Oxford, on 1 June 1693, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1696-1697, and proceeded Master of Arts
Career
At Saint Mary Hall in 1703. On 15 November 1708 he was appointed, on the recommendation of Henry Compton, bishop of London, library keeper at Sion College. Legislation passed in 1710 on copyright made Sion College a deposit library.
He was lecturer at the church of Saint Alphage between 1712 and 1723, and preached the sermon at Westminster Abbey on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I on 31 January 1714.
He was made lecturer at Street Michael, Crooked Lane, in 1725. He obtained a readership at Christ Church, London, in 1733.
Reading died on 10 December 1744.
