Lawrence Edward Reade (8 November 1846 – 17 August 1910) was a New Zealand solicitor and cricketer.
[12] Reade married Margaret Hannah Booth in Oamaru on 15 March 1876.
He was elected mayor of the Borough of East Invercargill in 1884,[7] and practiced law in the city.
[6] During the 1880s he served as a commissioner with the Supreme Courts of Tasmania and New South Wales[14] and later ran the Intestacy Department at the Public Trust Office in Wellington until 1902 when he settled in Foxton, Manawatu, where Reade worked as a solicitor.
[15] On 2 July 1910, while visiting a son in Wellington, Lawrence fell from a tram and suffered a head injury.