John Reeves

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John Reeves, (20 November 1752 – 7 August 1829), was a British conservative.

Reeves was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, being elected in 1778 as a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. In 1779 he was called to the bar and held the public offices counsel to the Royal Mint; clerk and secretary to the Board of Trade and superintendent of Aliens. He was a Chief Justice of Newfoundland for a year until returning to England in 1792 to accept the post of paymaster of the metropolitan police (Receiver of Public Offices).

Reeves campaigned against Jacobinism by founding at the Crown and Anchor tavern on 20 November, 1792 the Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers.

In 1793 he was appointed as high steward of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy and the King's Printer in 1800. He was also elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1789 and the next year was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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An Enquiry into the Nature of Property and Estates as defined by the Laws of England (1779).
History of English Law (five volumes, 1783 to 1829).
A Chart of Penal Laws, exhibiting by lines and colours an historical view of crimes and punishments, according to the law of England (1792).
History of the Government of the Island of Newfoundland (1793).
Thoughts on the English Government (1795).
A Collection of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Psalms (1800).
Considerations on the Coronation Oath to maintain the Protestant Reformed Religion, and the Settlement of the Church of England (1801).