1841, to the rank he now holds. On 16 Oct. following he was appointed Second-Captain of the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Herbert, with whom he returned home from India in the early part of 1843; and, since 3 July, 1844, he has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
He married, 9 Nov. 1843, Eliza Susannah, second daughter of the late Jas. Walker, Esq., of Blackheath. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
REYNOLDS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 23.)
James Reynolds entered the Navy, 31 March, 1807, as L.M., on board the Eliza and Jane tender, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Dickinson, employed between Plymouth and Dublin. In Sept. 1808 he followed the same officer into the Nonpareil 14; in which vessel, commanded afterwards by Lieut. Thos. Cowper Sherwin, we find him assisting, 3 Feb. 1810, at the capture of the Cannonière brig-of-war, of 3 guns, off the river Vilaine. In the course of 1811 he joined in succession the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, Royal William, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis at Spithead, and Ganymede 26, Capt. John Brett Purvis. In the Dannemark, he served as Midshipman in the Channel and among the Western Islands; he took part in the boats of the Ganymede in an attempt made to burn a privateer at the mouth of the Ebro; and he was present in the same ship at the siege of Tarragona in 1813 and in other operations on the coast of Catalonia. In July, 1815, being then with Capt. Purvis in the Amphion 32, he took up a commission bearing date 1 of the preceding March. Since 18 June, 1838, he has had charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
REYNOLDS. (Captain, 1830. f-p., 22; h-p., 27.)
John Reynolds was born 8 Nov. 1783 at Sandwich, co. Kent. He is brother of Capt. Geo. Reynolds, R.N. (1802), who died at Canterbury 25 Dec. 1822; and of Wm. Reynolds, Esq., who was 25 years a Clerk in the Admiralty, and died in 1811. His brother-in-law, Dr. Edw. Boys, was one of the Physicians of Haslar Hospital during the late war.
This officer entered the Navy, in Jan. 1798, as Midshipman, on board the Beaulieu 40, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, for the purpose of joining the Saturn 74; in which ship he continued employed on the Channel and Irish stations under Capts. Jacob Waller, Digby Dent, and Thos. Totty, until transferred, about May, 1800, to the Inspector sloop, Capts. Geo. Sayer (a) and Robt. Howe Bromley, on the North Sea station. Becoming attached, next, to the Cynthia 18, Capts. John Dick and John Westley Wright, he took part as Master’s Mate of that vessel in the operations of 1801 in Egypt. In the spring of 1803 he was received on board the Vlieter, Capt. Adrian Renou, lying at Sheerness; and after serving for about 12 months in the Channel and West Indies on board the Venerable and Centaur 74’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Collingwood and Commodore Sir Sam. Hood, he was nominated, 21 June, 1804, Acting-Lieutenant of the Blenheim 74, Capt. Loftus Otway Bland. He was confirmed to that ship 26 Sept. following; and was subsequently appointed – 8 Jan. 1805, to the Santa Margarita 36, Capt. Wilson Rathborne, under whom he fought in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action – 27 May, 1807, to the Conqueror 74, Capt. Israel Pellew, employed in the Channel and off Lisbon – in Nov. of the same year, to the charge of a Signal station – 2 Jan. 1809 and 2 Jan. 1812, to the command of the Hero and Nimble cutters – 13 Jan. 1813, to the Doris 36, Capt. Robt. O’Brien, whom he accompanied to China – and, 29 Nov. ensuing, to the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Brian Hodgson, in the East Indies. In 1810 Lieut. Reynolds, then in command of the Hero, discovered that the harbour of Salo, in the Kattegat, at the time but little known to the English, was a good place of refuge for vessels during gales of wind blowing on the Swedish shore. While in the same vessel and in the Nimble (which latter, although the crew escaped, foundered in a violent storm in the Sleeve 6 Nov. 1812) he captured and destroyed three Danish privateers and as many as 34 sail of merchantmen, was frequently in action with the enemy’s flotilla, and on one occasion was slightly wounded. So greatly did his successful exertions annoy the Norwegian merchants that they offered a large reward for the capture of the Hero. As may be conceived he elicited the high approbation of his Commander-in-Chief, Sir Jas. Saumarez, by whom, we understand, he was recommended to the Admiralty. In July, 1815, he assumed command of the Elk 18 on the East India station; where (the appointment to that vessel being confirmed 20 Nov. in the same year) he was nominated, 13 June and 22 Sept. 1816, and 1 March, 1817, Acting-Captain of the Iphigenia 36, Conway 24, and Volage 22. From 13 Feb. 1828 until posted 22 July, 1830, Capt. Reynolds commanded the Orestes 18, on the coast of Ireland.
He married Miss A. H. Decoeurdoux, daughter of Retired Commander Geo. Lacey Decoeurdoux, R.N.
REYNOLDS. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Louis Rivett Reynolds passed his examination 21 Feb. 1843; served in the Mediterranean as Mate on board the Warspite 50, Capts. Lord John Hay and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, and Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker; obtained his commission 15 Aug. 1846; was appointed, 22 Jan. 1847, to the Trafalgar 120, Capts. John Neale Nott and Chas. Hope, engaged on particular service; and, since 16 April, 1848, has been employed, again in the Mediterranean, in the Terrible steam-frigate, of 800 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Ramsay.
REYNOLDS. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
William Reynolds entered the Navy, 19 May, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amelia frigate, Capt. Lord Proby, and sailed soon afterwards for the West Indies. In the following Oct. he joined the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Sam. Hood, under whom (deducting a few weeks passed in the summer of 1811 on board the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell) he continued employed in the Hibernia 120 and Illustrious 74, on the Home, Baltic, and East India stations, until made Lieutenant, 16 April, 1812, into the Modeste 36, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot. While attached to the Centaur he assisted, in company with the Maes and Monarch 74’s, at the capture, 25 Sept. 1806, of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion Sir S. Hood lost his arm. He also, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen – beheld, in Dec. of the same year, the surrender of Madeira – aided, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the taking, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, at the close of a furious conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded – and took part, in Aug. 1809, in the attack upon Walcheren. In Aug. 1812 Lieut. Reynolds rejoined the Illustrious, and from 8 of the following month until 1 Oct. 1816 he was further employed in the East Indies on board the Volage 22, Capts. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, Sam. Leslie John Allen, and Joseph Drury, and, as First-Lieutenant, in the Acorn 20, Capt. Joseph Prior. In the Volage he contributed, in 1813, to the capture of the piratical settlement of Sambas, in Borneo and assisted in the operations which led to the restoration of the Sultan of Palembang. Since he left the Acorn he has been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
RHIND. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
William Graeme Rhind, born 18 Dec 1794 is son of Mr. W. Rhind, Master R.N., who served in that capacity in a frigate commanded by his late Majesty, and died under the flag of Lord Hood; and nephew of the present Jas. Baikie, Esq Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1790). His grandfather Wm Baikie, – another uncle, Mr. Hugh Baikie, – and
