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Renard, Reginald Samuel, son of Samuel Renard, I.S.O., of Kensington, by Jessie Jane, daughter of Thomas Whatmore, of Kensington; b. Feb. 13, 1883; adm. Jan. 21, 1897 (A); left May 1898; served in the R.N.A.S. in Great War I; m. April 12, 1917, Catherine Millett, daughter of Col. Edward Mair, I.M.S., of Kensington.

Remington-Hobbs, Edward, son of Albert Remington-Hobbs MD MRCS MRCP MRCOG, and Marguerite, d. of Sir Joseph Loftus Wilkinson, gen. manager GWR; b. 7 Feb. 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (H); left July 1934; RMC Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut. Roy. Scots Fusiliers Jan. 1936, Lieut. Jan. 1939; transf. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, served 1939-47 North Africa, NW Europe (wounded) and SEAC; instr. Staff Coll. Camberley 1944; War Office 1947-9; Capt. Jan. 1944, Maj. Jan. 1949, retd as Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1950; DSO (NW Europe) May 1945, OBE (Netherlands E. Indies) June 1947; Gold Staff Officer Coronation of HM the Queen 1953; OStJ 1963, CStJ 1972, KStJ 1976; an underwriting member of Lloyd's 1959; Freeman City of London 1960; chairman and man. dir. Polyseal Ltd 1960- 75, Bellfax Internat. Ltd 1975-84; chairman Snuff­ers Ltd 1984-; m. 1st 7 Dec. 1950 Angela Susan, d. of Capt. Marshall Owen Roberts; 2nd 24 Jan. 1957 Ann Campbell, formerly wife of Charles Edmund Peczenik; 3rd 1972 Susan Mary Sheila, d. of Hon. Charles Winn, formerly wife of Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill CBE; d. 29 July 1997.

REMINGTON, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1628, adm. scholar 1629, matr. Easter 1629; BA 1632/3.

RELHAN, RICHARD, son of Anthony Relhan MD FRCP FRCP (I), Brighton, Sussex, medical practitioner, and his first wife Sarah Breholt, Dublin; b. Dublin; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1767; Capt. of the School 1771; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1772, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1772, scholar 7 May 1773; BA 1776; MA 1779; ordained deacon (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1777, priest (Peterborough) 27 Jun 1779; Curate, New Romney, Kent 1777; Fellow and Chaplain, King’s Coll. Cambridge 1781; delivered a course of lectures on botany to Cambridge Univ. 1787; FRS 6 Dec 1787; Rector of Hemingby, Lincs., 1791; one of original Fellows of Linnean Society 1788; the genus Relhania was named after him by L’Héritier; author, Flora Cantabridgiensis, 1785, and of editions of Tacitus’s De Moribus Germanorum et de Vita Agricolae, 1809, and of Tacitus’s Historia, 1819; m. 31 Jul 1778 Maria Day (IGI); d. 28 Mar 1823.

Reitlinger, Gerald Roberts, son of Albert Reitlinger, of South Kensington; b. March 2, 1900; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (G); left July 1918; Slade School of Art, 1919-20; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Trinity 1920; B. Litt. 1923; a painter; author of A Tower of Skulls (1932), South of the Clouds (1939), The Final Solution (1953), The SS. Alibi of a Nation (1956), The House built on Sand (1959), and the Economics of taste (1961); d. 8 Mar. 1978.

Reid-Dick, John Francis, son of Sir William Reid-Dick KCVO RA, Pres. Roy. Soc. of British Sculptors, and Catherine, d. of William John Treadwell of Northampton; b. 1 July 1920; adm. May 1934 (B); left Mar. 1938; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1940; Mahratta LI (IA) in WW2 (Capt.); m. 22 Mar. 1947 Marie Gulielma Barbara, d. of Brig.-Gen. Sir William Henry Manning GCMG KBE CB, Governor of Ceylon; d. 19 Feb. 1970.

Reid, Peter Elliott, son of Ralph Elliott Reid of W. Kensington; b. 3 Oct. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (A); left Dec. 1932; RAF 1940-6; dep. underwriter General Life Assurance Co. 1957; m. 23 Dec. 1948 Joan Alice, d. of Walter Thomas Fear of Bletchley, Bucks.; d. July 2006.