REID. (Captain, 1822. f-p., 22; h-p., 28.)
Charles Hope Reid, a protégé of the Hopetoun family, is son of the late Chas. Reid, Esq., of Watermeetings, co. Lanark, steward or agent, we believe, to Lord Melville, by Wilhelmina Grunshield, niece of General Fingland Douglas, of Dumfriesshire.
This officer (originally in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) entered the Navy, in March, 1797, as A.B., on board the Colossus 74, Capt. Geo. Murray. In the following summer he was constantly engaged in rowing guard under the walls of Cadiz; and on one occasion the boat in which he served was so well defended that Lord St. Vincent promoted the commanding officer, the late Lord Wm. Stuart. The Colossus being wrecked on a ledge of rocks in St. Mary’s Road, Scilly, 10 Dec. 1798, he joined, in the course of the ensuing month, the Magnificent 74, Capt. Edw. Bowater; from which ship, attached to the Channel fleet, he removed as Midshipman, in March, 1801, to the Leda 38, Capt. Geo. Hope, and sailed for the Mediterranean. From Oct. 1801 until Nov. 1804 Mr. Reid acted, off Oporto and in the North Sea and West Indies, as Master of the Netley schooner, Lieut.-Commanders Jas. Mein and John Lawrence; in which vessel he co-operated in the reduction of Ste. Lucie 22 June, 1803, and assisted, in the following Sept., at the capture of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. In 1805, having passed his examination, he was again placed under the orders of Lieut. Mein as Midshipman on board the Nimble cutter, commanded subsequently by Lieut. Thos. Delafons. On his return in her, as Sub-Lieutenant, to the West Indies, after having served in the Channel and off the port of Cadiz, he received an acting-order from Rear-Admiral Hon. Alex. Cochrane to assume command of the Trinidad schooner of 14 guns. While on his passage to join that vessel in the Hart sloop-of-war, the latter in a gust of wind fell over on her beam ends, and was only saved from foundering by his great activity and presence of mind. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806, he was successively appointed in that capacity – 16 April, 1806, to the Theseus 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, stationed in the Channel, where he remained until obliged by ill health to invalid in the following Oct. – 15 April, 1807, to the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, part of the force employed in the expedition against Copenhagen, where he assisted at the debarkation of the troops under Lord Cathcart, officiated as Senior Lieutenant during the equipment of the Danish fleet, and ultimately, owing to the illness of his Captain, assumed the sole charge of the ship, which he conducted home – 24 Feb. 1808 (after three months of half-pay), to the Pompée 74, commanded, at Chatham, by his friend Capt. Hope – and 28 March following, to the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas, Saumarez. In the ship last mentioned he aided in bringing home the remains of Sir John Moore’s army after the battle of Corunna at the commencement of 1809, and thenceforward, until promoted to the rank of Commander 2 June, 1812, served as Flag-Lieutenant to his patron, who had been appointed Captain of the Baltic fleet. He was subsequently appointed – 11 Sept. 1812, to the Fervent 12, stationed in the Channel and Baltic – in June, 1814, to the Calypso 18, employed among the Western Islands and in the Mediterranean – in Jan. 1816, as Acting-Captain, for four months, to the Trident 64, guard-ship at Malta, where, as senior officer, he conducted the duties of the port and of the Naval Arsenal – and 12 Dec. 1817, to the Driver sloop, in which vessel, until paid off in Oct. 1821, he had charge on the coast of Scotland of all the small cruizers under the orders of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope and his successor Rear-Admiral Robt. Waller Otway. He attained Post-rank 26 Dec. 1822; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Reid is married and has issue.
REID. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
Curtis Reid was born 16 Feb. 1789. His father, brother, and some other relatives were in the Naval Service.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 April, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Chichester 44, Capt. Jos. Spear; and in the course of the same year was present at the reduction of Ste. Lucie and Tobago, and of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. Removing, in June, 1805, to the Arethusa 38, Capt. Chas. Brisbane, he assisted in that ship at the capture, 23 Aug. 1806, near the Havana, after a spirited action, in which the British sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 32 wounded, of the Pomona Spanish frigate of 38 guns and 347 men, laden with specie and merchandize, and defended by a castle mounting 11 36-pounders, and a flotilla of 10 gun-boats, all of which were destroyed. In 1807 he shared in the memorable capture of Curaçoa. After serving for about 15 months on the Jamaica station in the Firefly 14, Lieut.-Commander David Boyd, he was there, 29 July and 8 Aug. 1809, nominated Acting- Lieutenant of the Sparrow 16, and Avon 18, Capts. Edw. Burt and Henry Tillieux Fraser. While in the latter vessel, to which the Admiralty confirmed him by a commission bearing date 10 Oct. 1809, he was severely wounded in the left arm in a long and destructive action fought (the Rainbow 22 in company) with the French 40-gun frigate La Néréide, 14 Feb. 1810. His last appointments were – 16 Aug. 1810, to the Reindeer 18, Capt. Peter John Douglas, also in the West Indies, whence, in the course of the same month, he invalided – 4 March, 1811, to the Royal William, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis at Spithead – and 16 Nov. 1811 and 7 June, 1813, to the Ganymede 26 and Minstrel 24, Capts. John Brett Purvis and Robt. Mitford, both in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Nov. of the latter year.
In consideration of his wound, Lieut. Reid was allowed, 25 April, 1814, a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum. He married 26 Oct. 1826. Agent – J. Hinxman.
REID. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Douglas Reid was born 26 Oct. 1806 at Plymouth.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Raleigh sloop. While serving as Midshipman on board the Bulwark 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, he fell from the lower deck to the keelson, in the after-hold, and was so severely injured that he was sent to Plymouth Hospital, and there subjected to a most painful operation. He passed his examination in 1827; and for his services on the coast of Syria, where he was throughout the whole campaign the Senior Mate in the squadron, was promoted, 5 Nov. 1840, to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 30 July, 1841, to the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned home and was paid off in Feb. 1842 – 18 Oct. 1842, to the St. Vincent 120, from which ship, bearing the flags of Sir Edw. Codrington and Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmouth, he was discharged, in consequence of ill health, and sent to the hospital, towards the close of 1843 – 9 Sept. 1844, to the Pantaloon 10, Capt. Edm. Wilson, fitting at Portsmouth – 4 March, 1845, to the Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, with whom he continued employed on particular service, latterly as First-Lieutenant, until Feb. 1847 – and 22 Jan. 1848, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel. He was awarded a pension for the injury above alluded to 1 Jan. 1847.
REID. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Henry Reid entered the Navy, in May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Eurus, Capt. Alex. Innes, lying in the Cove of Cork; and from Jan. 1806 until 1814 was employed, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, in the Dryad 36, Capts. Adam Drummond and Edw. Galwey. During that period he proceeded, in company with two other ships, to Davis’ Strait in pursuit of three French frigates. He also accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren – cruized with much activity in the Bay
