William Robert Ashley Birch Reynardson
CBE
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(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
Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras. For 21 years it was held in the gardens of Ingrams's home at Garsington ...
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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
Adwell House, Adwell, Oxfordshire, is a Grade II* listed
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, 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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English barristers
1923 births
2017 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at The Dragon School
British Army officers
British Army personnel of World War II
Bill
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High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire
20th-century English lawyers
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
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