Sir Robert Reading, first and last Baronet Reading, (c. 1640 – c. March 1689) built several privately owned lighthouses in Ireland under letters patent from Charles II of England.
[1] He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1658.
He married Jane Coote, daughter of Sir Robert Hannay c. 1662.
They had one child, Elizabeth, who married James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn.
[5] The Howth bar and Isle of Magee lights did not last long, though the latter was re-established on the Lesser Copeland Island.