Henry Reade (c. 1716–1762) was an English academic and government official.
He was the son of Unton Reade, rector of Shilling Okeford, and was educated at Eton College.
In that year he wrote to George Selwyn, who had left Eton for Hart Hall, Oxford in 1739, in a letter beginning "an unwillingness to write to one's best friends is, of all others, the most oppressive and most affecting disease.
"[2][3] He became tutor to the sons of the 9th Earl of Lincoln, an Eton and Cambridge contemporary.
[4][5] Within the Exchequer, Reade held a number of positions from 1752, including that of Chief Clerk of the Bill Office.