Around 1640 Robert Reading 1st Baronet was born.
In 1658 Robert Reading 1st Baronet [aged 18] was awarded Master of Arts: Oxford University by Christ Church College, Oxford University.
Before 17th December 1661 Charles Coote 1st Earl Mountrath [aged 51] and [his future wife] Jane Hannay Countess Mountraith were married. She by marriage Countess Mountrath.
Around 1662 Robert Reading 1st Baronet [aged 22] and Jane Hannay Countess Mountraith were married.
In November 1671 Robert Reading 1st Baronet [aged 31] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
On 27th August 1675 Robert Reading 1st Baronet [aged 35] was created 1st Baronet Reading of Dublin.
John Evelyn's Diary. 23rd August 1678. Upon Sir Robert Reading's [aged 38] importunity, I went to visit the Duke of Norfolk [aged 50], at his new palace at Weybridge, where he has laid out in building near £10,000, on a copyhold, and in a miserable, barren, sandy place by the street side; never in my life had I seen such expense to so small purpose. The rooms are wainscotted, and some of them richly pargeted with cedar, yew, cypress, etc. There are some good pictures, especially that incomparable painting of Holbein's, where the Duke of Norfolk, Charles Brandon and Henry VIII., are dancing with the three ladies, with most amorous countenances, and sprightly motion exquisitely expressed. It is a thousand pities (as I told my Lord of Arundel [aged 23], his son), that that jewel should be given away.
In January 1684 [his son-in-law] James Hamilton 6th Earl Abercorn [aged 23] and Elizabeth Reading were married. She the daughter of Robert Reading 1st Baronet [aged 44] and Jane Hannay Countess Mountraith.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th January 1684. I visited Sir Robert Reading [aged 44], where after supper we had musiq, but not comparable to that which Mrs. Bridgeman made us on the guittar with such extraordinary skill and dexterity.
Around March 1689 Robert Reading 1st Baronet [aged 49] died.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Reading was born to Robert Reading 1st Baronet and Jane Hannay Countess Mountraith. She married January 1684 James Hamilton 6th Earl Abercorn and had issue.