John Blagrave of Reading was an English Tudor mathematician, astronomer and designer of astronomical and mathematical instruments. His astrolabe designs, which he described in his writings, were advanced for Britain. He devoted himself to mathematical study and was called, by Anthony à Wood, "the flower of mathematicians of his age"
Drawing of the funerary monument to John Blagrave in St Laurence's Church, Reading. Commissioned by Blagrave, the monument shows him surrounded by five female statuettes holding the five platonic solids.
Calcot Park is a country house, estate, and golf club in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated between Calcot and Tilehurst, suburbs of the town of Reading, and within the civil parish of Tilehurst. It is north of the Bath Road.
Calcot Park
Calcot Park c. 1845 by William Fox Talbot