Bill Birch Reynardson Explained

William Robert Ashley Birch Reynardson CBE (7 December 1923 – 4 July 2017) was a South African-born British barrister who was instrumental in the development of maritime law. He was vice-president of the Comité Maritime International and chairman of the Garsington Opera.^{[1] [2]}

He was the son of Lt-Col Henry Thomas Birch Reynardson (1892-1972), and married Pamela Matnika in 1950 (1923-1997), the daughter of Lt-Gen Sir Edward Thomas Humphreys KCB CMG DSO (1878-1955) and Dorothy Grace Penton (1891-1967). His home was Adwell House, Oxfordshire, the family seat of the Birch Reynardsons.

Publications

• Letters to Lorna. Wilton 65, Windsor, 2008.
• Survivors: A story in letters of an English family's survival during four centuries of wars. Adwell Press, 2014.

External links

• Web site: Bill Birch Reynardson 1923 - 2017. lawfordherry.blogspot.co.uk. 1 October 2017.
• Web site: Adwell House, Oxfordshire. 4 June 2014. Handedon.wordpress.com. 1 October 2017.

Notes and References

1. Web site: William 'Bill' Birch Reynardson, businessman and countryman – obituary. 16 August 2017. 1 October 2017. Telegraph.co.uk.
2. Web site: Bill Birch Reynardson. 26 September 2017. 1 October 2017. Thetimes.co.uk.