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. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1658. He was elected as an MP in the Irish House of Commons for Ratoath (1662–1666), but was attainted by the Irish Parliament of James II (1689). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1671. He was made 1st Baronet Reading of Dublin on 27 August 1675. On his death he was buried in Newark, Nottinghamshire.