Was an articled pupil of James Luke (qv), who in 1853 and again in 1862 was President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Reed studied at the London Hospital, then practised at Hertford and acted as Physician and Surgeon to the Hertfordshire County Infirmary from 1843-1856. Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir William Fergusson were his friends; he had polished manners and an agreeable address. In 1857 he became a MRCP London and set up in Hertford Street, Mayfair. He was well known as a fellow and member of Medical Societies, and as a member of the Athenaeum and Union Clubs. He retired from practice some fifteen years before his death, which occurred, after a period of failing health, at his house in Hertford Street on March 11th, 1892. He married in 1866 and was survived by his widow, a son, who had already distinguished himself at Harrow and Cambridge, and a daughter. Publications: Reed published various papers in medical journals, including: "On Some Affections of the Caecal Portion of the Intestines with Cases." - *Med- Chin Trans*, 1862, xlv, 77.