English art critic and historian. Read translated Wilhelm Worringer's Formprobleme der Gotik and met many of the Bauhaus instructors through Worringer and Max Sauerlandt, the director f the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Read served as the editor fo the Burlington Magazine from 1933 to 1939 and wrote books on topics such as "Art and Society" (1937) and "Eduation through Art" (1942). Read wrote a letter to the Home Office in support of Breuer's immigration to England.