RASHLEIGH, NATHANIEL; b.; adm.; KS 1663; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1667, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1667, scholar 1668; BA 1670/1; MA 1674; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1674-1706, Senior Fellow from 1706, Tutor 1680, Junior Dean 1700-1, Junior Bursar 1704-6; ordained; Rector of Papworth St. Andrew, Cambs., 1693; one of petitioners to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley in 1709; d. 6 May 1713.

RATFORD (or RADFORD), JOSEPH, son of Robert Ratford (or Radford), Stepney, Middlesex, and Anne ---; bapt. St. Dunstan, Stepney 3 Jun 1655 (IGI); adm.; KS 1671; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1674 (as Radford), aged 17.

RAWSON, HERBERT EDWARD, brother of Henry Gilbert Rawson (qv); b. 3 Sep 1852; adm. 28 Sep 1865 (G); QS 1867; left Christmas 1870; RMA Woolwich; Lieut., Royal Engineers 12 Sep 1872; Capt., 12 Sep 1884; Maj., 31 Dec 1891; Lieut. -Col., 7 Jul 1899; half-pay 7 Jul 1904; Brevet Col., 29 Nov 1900; Col., 25 Feb 1905; Chief Engineer, South Africa 1905-7, Northern Command 1907-9; retd. 3 Sep 1909; served in South African War 1899-1902, mentioned in Buller’s despatches 30 Mar, 19 Jun and 9 Nov 1900, LG 8 Feb 1901 and 29 Jul 1902; CB 22 Aug 1902; played cricket for Kent 1873 and Association Football for England v. Scotland 1875; Busby Trustee 24 May 1910; JP Hertfordshire 1914; m. 8 Jul 1875 Elizabeth Stuart, dau. of Richard Owen Armstrong, Monkstown, co. Dublin; d. 18 Oct 1924.

Rayne, John Perham, son of Maj. Henry Rayne OBE MC, Colonial Civil Service, and Ethel Kate Rayne; b. 1 Mar. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (KS); left July 1935; BNC Oxf., matric. 1935; RAF in WW2; tsetse control in East Africa; m. 1st 12 June 1943 Iris Smart; 2nd Patricia Brown; d. Oct. 1994.

RAYNES, EDWARD, son of Edward Raynes, Besthorpe, Notts.; b.; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1726; KS 1727; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1731, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1731, scholar 12 May 1732; BA 1734/5; MA 1742; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 22 Dec 1734; Rector of Hangleton, Sussex, from 31 Jan 1740/1; Rector of Isfield, Sussex, from 16 Feb 1741/2; m. 28 May 1745 Anne, third dau. of James Chambers, Seaford, Sussex; d. 16 Apr 1755.

RAYNES, THOMAS, brother of Edward Raynes (in school list 1801, qv ); bapt. 3 Apr 1788; adm. 13 Sep 1799 (Clapham); KS 1802; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1806, adm. pens. 19 May 1806, scholar 1807; BA 1810; ordained; Curate, Ripe, Sussex 18 Feb 1811, Chalvington, Sussex 1 Nov 1811; Rector of Waldron, Sussex, from 7 May 1821; m. 19 Nov 1825 (IGI) Maria Jane, widow of Lieut. John Daxon, 37th Foot, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Fuller, Heathfield, Sussex; buried Waldron, Sussex 13 Mar 1850, aged 62.

REECE, GEORGE HENRY WALTON, brother of Joseph Frederick Reece (qv); b. 30 Aug 1861; adm. 24 Sep 1874; QS 1876; left May 1880; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Jan 1882; BA 1885; preparatory schoolmaster at Westgate on Sea, Kent 1894-1925; m. 1 Jan 1895 Frances Louisa Gordon, second dau. of Rev. William Campbell, Rector of Stoke Dry, Rutland.

REEVE (or RYVE), SAMUEL, brother of --- Reeve (qv); b.; adm.; QS 1565-70; Magdalen Hall, Oxford (there in 1572, aged 21); migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, Canoneer Student 1573; BA 1575/6; MA 1579; ordained; Rector of Marsh Gibbon, Bucks., from 1583; m. (by 1598); buried Marsh Gibbon, Bucks., 4 Feb 1612/3.

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.

REYNOLDS, OCTAVIAN, fifth son of Right Rev. Richard Reynolds LLD, Bishop of Lincoln, and Sarah, dau. of Right Rev. Richard Cumberland DD, Bishop of Peterborough; bapt. Kingsthorpe, Northants 6 Nov 1707; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1722; KS 1724; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1728, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1728, scholar 2 May 1729; BA 1731/2; MA 1735; ordained deacon 24 Feb 1731/2, priest 5 Mar 1731/2 (both Lincoln); Rector of Farthingstone, Northants 16 Mar 1731/2-3; Precentor of Llandaff 28 Jun 1732-3; Prebendary of Lincoln from 17 Nov 1732; Rector of Wheathamsted, Herts., from 25 Nov 1732; Vicar of Leighton Buzzard, Beds., 8 Jul 1748-59; m. c. 1734 Clemence, natural dau. of Sir Thomas Montgomerie, Kt; d. 22 May 1773.