RICE, VINCENT, son of Rev. David Rice, Vicar of Ambleston, Pembrokeshire, and Jane --- (IGI); b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1695; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1699/1700; BA 1702/3; ordained deacon (Ely) 20 Sep 1702, priest (Lincoln) 23 May 1703; Rector of Fretherne, Gloucs., from 21 Dec 1720; an interesting letter from Rice’s father in reference to the conduct of the election of 1699 is preserved at Trinity Coll. Cambridge (printed Elizabethan iii, 101); buried Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucs., 25 Nov 1734.

RICE, JOHN ADAMSON, son of Henry Rice, and Sarah Sampson (IGI); b. Dover, Kent 29 Mar 1778; adm.; KS 1793; Writer, EICS Madras 1796; arrived in India 1 Oct 1798; Second Assistant to Collector, Canara 1799; d. at Madras 21 Oct 1799.

RICE, FRANCIS WILLIAM, 5TH BARON DINEVOR, son of Hon. Edward Rice (qv); b. 10 May 1804; adm. 26 Apr 1813; KS 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1822; BA 1826; MA 1847; ordained deacon and priest 1828 (both Gloucester); Vicar of Fairford, Gloucs., from 22 Dec 1828; succ. cousin as 5th Baron Dinevor 7 Oct 1869; m. 1st, 3 Feb 1830 Harriet Ives, dau. of Daniel Raymond Barker, Fairford Park, Gloucs.; m. 2nd, 18 Nov 1856 Eliza Amelia, eldest dau. of Rev. Henry Carnegie Knox, Rector of Lechlade, Gloucs.; d. 3 Aug 1878.

RHODES, RICHARD, son of Benjamin Rhodes, St. James, Clerkenwell, London, and Maulden, Beds., Steward to Earls of Elgin, and Anne Glover, St. James, Clerkenwell, gentlewoman to Countess of Elgin; bapt. St. James Clerkenwell 27 Dec 1640 (IGI); adm. 17 Sep 1655; a boarder; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 31 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 22 Mar 1661/2; Montpelier Univ. (degree in medicine); travelled in Spain; described by Wood as “a confident Westmonasterian, a violinist to hold between his knees” (Ath. Oxon., i, xxxv); his play, Flora’s Vagaries, published in 1670, was acted by the Students of Christ Church 8 Jan 1663/4 (Thompson, Christ Church, 95-6), and afterwards in London, where the part of Flora was taken by Nell Gwyn; m.; d. at Madrid 1668. DNB.

Rhodes, Nicholas Gervase, son of Alfred Henry Brian Rhodes MB ChB MRCGP, gen. med. practitioner, and Ruth, d. of Wilfred Whiteley, mill owner and engineer, of Elland, Yorks; b. 26 May 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (QS); left July 1964; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1964, BA 1967, MA 1977; an actuary, FIA 1973; Legal & General Assurance Soc. 1967-76; Victory Reinsurance Co. 1976-89; NRG Victory Reinsurance Co. 1989-94; Chief Actuary, GE Frankona Reassurance 1994-2002; hon. treas. Roy. Numismatic Soc. 1973-2002, hon. Fellow 2002; sec. -gen. Oriental Numismatic Soc. 1997-; the leading authority of his generation on the coinages of the Himalayan region; joint author, The Coinage of Nepal 1989, and joint author of similar monographs on the coinages of Assam, Cooch Behar, Tripura and other Indian states; m. 17 Aug. 1970 Deki Tsering, d. of Maj. Wangchuck Dorji Laden-La of Darjeeling, India; d. 6 July 2011.

RHODES, CHRISTOPHER; b.; adm.; KS 1692; left 1694; one of the managers for taking the option of the proprietors of lotteries 1717; Commissioner of the Excise (S) 1730-61; a Director of the State Lottery 1731; General Inspector of the Excise on Tea 1742; m. 8 Feb 1708/9 Joan Boteler, St. Margaret, Westminster.

RHODES, CHRISTOPHER, son of Christopher Rhodes (qv); b.; adm. Jun 1720; KS (aged 12) 1725; Capt. of the School 1729; spoke the prologue on the first representation of the Play in the New Dormitory, Christmas 1729; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1730, matr. 16 Jun 1730, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1730 – void 26 Jun 1740; BA 1734; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jan 1731/2. [Perhaps “C. Rhodes”, who was Secretary to Charles Fane, British Minister, Tuscany, in 1735; and perhaps Christopher Rhodes, Chatham, Kent, will proved PCC 13 Jan 1787]

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.

REYNOLDS, JOHN, son of Henry Revell Reynolds MD FRCP, Bedford Square, London, Physician in Ordinary to George III, and Elizabeth Wilson; b. 18 Jun 1782; in school list 1795 (previously at Felsted Sch.); Min. Can. 1795; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1796; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 May 1799; Clerk, Home Office Oct 1803 – Dec 1805; on staff of Sir Francis Jackson, British Minister at Washington, USA, for five years; became a Congregational minister; Pastor, New Windsor Congregational Church, Salford, Lancs.; Head Master, Protestant Dissenters GS, Pendleton, Lancs., 1812- c. 1814 [check]; Congregational minister at Romsey, Hampshire 1824-50, subsequently at Halstead, Essex; an anecdote of his being flogged by Vincent appeared in The Times 23 Jul 1928; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 1 Jul 1819 Sarah, dau. of Robert Fletcher, Chester; d. 15 Feb 1862.

Reynolds, John Hardwick, only son of John James Reynolds, of London, solicitor, by Marian, elder daughter of Daniel Willlshen Soames, of Harrow Weald, Middlesex; b. Aug. 10, 1877; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 24, 1891; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1896, matric. Michaelmas 1896; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1905; joined the special war staff of the Royal Geographical Society 1914 and became secretary to the Permanent Committee on geographical names for British official use; awarded the Murchison grant of the R. G. Soc. 1924; joint author with Major­ Gen. Lord Edward Gleichen of Alphabets of Foreign Languages transcribed into English (1921); m. July 25, 1908, Alice Isabel, youngest daughter of John Lewin Bacon, of Wellington, New Zealand; d. Jan. 9, 1937.