Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Reeve, Henry

​REEVE, Henry, C.B.. born in Norfolk in 1813; educated at Geneva and Munich; appointed to the office of Registrar of the Privy Council in 1837, which he still holds; and succeeded the late Sir G. C. Lewis as editor of the Edinburgh Review in 1855. He published a translation of De Tocqueville's well-known work on "Democracy in merica," and of "France before the Revolution of 1789," and of M. Guizot's "Washington." In 1855 he brought out a new and revised edition of "Whitelocke's Journal of the Swedish Embassy in 1653-54." In 1874, Mr. Reeve published a "Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV., by Charles C. F. Greville, Esq.," which had been placed in his hands for this purpose by the author. In the previous year he published a collection of Historical and Biographical Essays, under the title of "Royal and Republican France." He was elected in 1865 a corresponding member of the Institute of France by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Mr. Reeve is a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and a Commander of the Royal Military Order of Christ in Portugal. The University of Oxford conferred on him, in 1869, the honorary degree of D.C.L.

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