He is the ostensible subject of Rudyard Kipling's poem Gehazi, thought to be aimed at Rufus Isaacs, a member of the British Liberal government at the time the poem was composed.
It is named after Lady Reading, the wife of the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading.
Reading | Reading, Berkshire | University of Reading | Rufus Wainwright | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Reading F.C. | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Reading, Pennsylvania | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Marquess | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Jason Isaacs | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | International Reading Association | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley |
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.
Along with Alfred Mond and Herbert Samuel, Isaacs was a founding chairman of the Palestine Electric Corporation, precursor to the Israel Electric Corporation in the British Mandate of Palestine.