William Reeve (1794-1850) was a London Missionary Society missionary to India, author of an early dictionary of the Kannada language, and translator with John Hands of the Bible into Kannada.
[2] William Reeve was the first to compile the Canarese - English dictionary, which was published in 1858, by the Wesleyan Mission Press, financially supported by Sir.
Mark Cubbon the British Resident of Mysore.
[3] Reeve was minister of the Congregational church at Oswestry, from 1836 to 1843.
He then suffered a complete loss of sight, and moved to Bristol.