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Barrington Reynolds
Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, GCB (1786 – 3 August 1861), was a senior and long-serving officer of the British Royal Navy who went to sea with his father aged only nine during the French Revolutionary Wars and was captured by the French aged eleven. Returning to service on his release soon afterwards, Reynolds experienced the successive deaths of his elder brother and his father on active service during the Napoleonic Wars as well as severe bouts of ill-health himself. Leaving the service at the end of the war, Reynolds returned to the Navy in the 1840s after an absence of thirty years and played a major role in the final destruction of the illegal trade in African slaves to Brazil. Reynolds was honoured for this service and retired again to his family seat in Cornwall, where he died aged 75.
==Early career==
Barrington Reynolds was the second son of Captain Robert Carthew Reynolds, a successful and long-serving Royal Navy officer who had once served under Samuel Barrington who is probably the origin of Barrington's Christian name. Like his elder brother, Barrington Reynolds had been born at the family seat in Penair, near Truro, Cornwall, but aged only nine he was brought onto his father's ship the frigate for service as a captain's servant.〔 Britain was engaged at this time in the French Revolutionary Wars and ''Amazon'' was attached to the squadron under Sir Edward Pellew which harassed French shipping along the Biscay Coast. In February 1797, ''Amazon'' and Pellew's ship engaged the much larger French ship of the line ''Droits de l'Homme'' in a storm off Brest. During the engagement, skilful manoeuvering by the British drove the French ship onto rocks with the loss of hundreds of lives. ''Amazon'' too was wrecked, but Captain Reynolds succeeded in beaching her rather than running her onto rocks and as result all but six of her crew survived to become prisoners of war.〔
Barrington Reynolds was released with his father a year later and returned to service on , before transferring to ''Indefatigable'' as a midshipman, his first commission away from his father. When Pellew moved to he took the young Reynolds with him and the midshipman gained combat experience in several raiding operations on the French coast under the command of Lieutenant John Pilfold.〔 Late in 1800 Reynolds briefly rejoined his father in before being promoted lieutenant on he soon moved to and later transferred again, to the frigate in which he remained for the next five years until 1808. In 1804 his elder brother, Lieutenant Robert Reynolds, was killed in action off Martinique.〔(Reynolds, Robert Carthew ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', J. K. Laughton, Retrieved 30 March 2008〕
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