About Bill Birch Reynardson
Lived 1923 – 2017 (aged 93). Bill Birch Reynardson was a British military personnel and barrister.
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.
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.
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Who was Bill Birch Reynardson?
British businessman and countryman; (1923-2017)
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Bill Birch Reynardson was born on 7 December 1923.
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Bill Birch Reynardson died on 4 July 2017.
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Bill Birch Reynardson was a military personnel and barrister.
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Bill Birch Reynardson was British.
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