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Marquess of Reading is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was created in 1926 for Rufus Isaacs, 1st Earl of Reading, the former Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.

He had already been created Baron Reading, of Erleigh in the County of Berkshire, in 1914, Viscount Reading, of Erleigh in the County of Berkshire, in 1916, and Viscount Erleigh, of Erleigh in the County of Berkshire, and Earl of Reading, in 1917.

The marquessate is the highest title in the British peerage ever attained by a Jew, and is the junior-most extant Marquessate in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.