Charles Read (c. 1825 – 3 March 1910) was a tailor and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.[1]
Read was born in Southampton, England, the son of James Read and Ann, nee Lye.[1] Read arrived in Geelong in October 1849 aboard the Tasman[2] and started business as a tailor.[1] He was involved in the Temperance Society, "with a striking personality, a vigorous platform speaker, he soon began to render splendid service to the organisation".[2] Read was elected as one of the three representatives for Geelong in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1856.[1] Read finished third in the field of seven.[2] He was deputy registrar of births etc. at Geelong from 1870 to 1884.[1]
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- ^ a b c d e "Charles Read". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "Memories of Early Geelong". Geelong Advertiser. 12 March 1910. p. 7. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via Trove.