of Biscay – co-operated with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where he landed and came into frequent contact with the French troops – made a voyage to Newfoundland – and assisted, 26 May, 1814, at the capture of La Clorinde, a French frigate, which had been disabled in action the day before. In Oct. 1814 Mr. Reid was received as a Supernumerary on board the Trent, flag-ship of Sir Herbert Sawyer at Cork. From March to July, 1815, he was employed as Master’s Mate in the Eurotas 38, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap, under whom he aided in guarding the person of Napoleon Buonaparte. He then took up a commission bearing date 24 Feb. 1815; and has since been on half-pay. He was frequently during the war sent home in charge of captured vessels. Agents – Collier and Snee.
REID. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
John Reid passed his examination 24 Feb. 1836; and after officiating as Mate, on the North America and West India and East India stations, of the Winchester 50 and Agincourt 72, flag-ships of Sir Thos. Harvey and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was promoted, for service he had performed in China, to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[1] Being reappointed to the Agincourt, 15 Feb. 1844, he took command of a gun-boat manned from that ship, and served, 19 Aug. 1845, with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British, encountering a fierce opposition, sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.[2] He returned to England in 1847 as First-Lieutenant of the Agincourt; and, since 8 June, 1848, has been employed in the same capacity on board the Frolic 16, Capt. Henry Vansittart.
REID. (Lieutenant, 1843)
Robert Reid entered the Navy 18 Sept. 1829; passed his examination 1 June, 1836; and at the period of his promotion, 26 Jan. 1843, was serving at Plymouth as Mate on board the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne. From 18 March, 1843, until paid off at the close of 1846, he was employed at the Cape of Good Hope as Second and First Lieutenant in the Sappho 16, Capts. Hon. Geo. Hope and Robt. Fitzgerald Gambier; and since 26 Feb. 1847 he has been officiating in the capacity last mentioned on board the Mariner 12, Capts. Hon. Geo. Hope and Chas. Mitchell Mathison.
REID. (Commander, 1846.)
Walter Reid passed his examination in 1824; obtained his first commission 28 Oct. 1836; served from 10 Nov. 1836 until paid off at the close of 1838 in the Clio 16, Capt. Wm. Richardson, on the Mediterranean station; and from 12 Aug. 1841 until again paid off in 1844 was employed on the coast of Africa as Second and First Lieutenant in the Madagascar 44, Capt. John Foote. He has not been since afloat. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place 9 Nov. 1846. He married, in 1840, Mary Wilmot, daughter of Benj. Crocker, Esq., of Hampton House, Plymouth, and Ridgeway, co. Devon, Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1799), who died in 1842.
REIKIE. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 21; h-p., 33.)
William Reikie entered the Navy, in Jan. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Expedition cutter, Lieut.-Commander Grosvenor Winkworth, lying in Leith Roads; and in the following May removed to the Bellerophon 74, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas) Pasley, under whom he fought in Lord Howe’s actions, 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794. In Dec. of the latter year he became Master’s Mate of the Ambuscade 32, and after serving for 18 months in that frigate and in the Glenmore 44, both commanded in the North Sea by Capt. Geo. Duff; joined, in the summer of 1796, the Cambrian 40, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, stationed on the coast of France; where, in Jan. 1800, he was placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Telemachus cutter. He was confirmed, 8 March following, into the Voltigeur sloop, Capts. Thos. Geo. Shortland, Lennox Thompson, and Thos. Hill, employed, until April, 1802, at Newfoundland and off Cadiz; and was subsequently appointed – 1 Sept. 1803, to the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. A. K. Legge, part of the force engaged in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805 – 9 Aug. 1806, to the Canopus 80, Capt. T. G. Shortland, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Louis, under whom he assisted we believe at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of Le Président French frigate, and in Feb. 1807 passed the Dardanells – 22 Dec. 1807, after eight months of half-pay, to the Texel 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon at Leith – and in May, 1808, to the Transport service, in which he continued employed on the coast of Portugal, in the Mediterranean, and at Cork, until Sept. 1815. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 31 Dec. 1830; and on the Senior 5 Nov. 1844.
RENDELL. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 11; h-p., 22.)
John Rendell was born 20 Aug. 1797, at Tiverton, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 June, 1814, on board the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, and immediately sailed for the Cape of Good Hope with a convoy of vessels destined for the East Indies. In the course of 1815 he became Midshipman, on the Home station, of the Namur 74, Capt. M‘Kenzie, and Griper 12, Capt. Arthur M‘Meekan; and from the close of that year until Sept. 1820, he was employed in the West Indies, on board the Antelope 50, Capt. Geo. Sayer, Salisbury 50, Capt. John Wilson, Raleigh 18, Capt. Wm. Aug. Baumgardt, and Sybille 44, Capt. Wm. Popham. In 1825 he sailed in the Blossom 24, Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey (to whose Memoir refer), on a voyage of discovery viâ Cape Horn to Behring Strait, with the ultimate object in view of there co-operating with the contemporaneous and differently-directed expeditions of Capts. Franklin and Parry in their efforts to ascertain the existence of a north-west passage. He returned to England in Sept. 1828; and on 4 Nov. following, while serving at Portsmouth on board the Madagascar 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, 27 April, 1839, Sophia, daughter of Thos. Medland, Esq., of Exeter, and has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
RENNIE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
James Rennie entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Désirée 36, Capt. Henry Whitby; previously to following whom, in April, 1805, into the Centaur 74, he acted as Master, assisted in surveying the Caicos Islands, and was in several boat-affairs on the coasts of Cuba and St. Domingo. On leaving the Centaur he accompanied Capt. Whitby, in Nov. 1805, into the Leander 50, flag-ship of Sir Andrew Mitchell on the coast of North America; whence, in the autumn of 1806, he returned to England as a Supernumerary in the Tartar 32, Capt. Stephen Poyntz. Being then received on board the Defence 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, he took part in the following year in the attack upon Copenhagen; during the operations connected with which we find him serving under the immediate orders of Colonel D’Arcy, Chief of Engineers, also commanding the Ornen, a Danish brig of 10 guns, and involved in frequent affrays with the enemy’s gun-boats. He was subsequently employed off Lisbon (whence he escorted the Russian fleet to England after the convention of Cintra) and in the West Indies; and in Oct. 1809 he was again,
