John Blake-Reed

Sir John Seymour Blake-Reed OBE (26 November 1882 – 8 March 1966) was a British judge who served in Colonial Egypt.

[1] Blake-Reed was born in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire[2] and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford.

He was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1907, working on the Northern Circuit.

His final position was as a judge of the Mixed Court of Appeal in Alexandria (1932 to 1949).

[3] He was found dead on 8 March 1966 in his room at Jesus College, Oxford, aged 83.