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Robert Carthew Reynolds
Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds (''bap.'' 30 July 1745 – 24 December 1811) was a long serving and widely respected officer of the British Royal Navy who served in four separate major wars in a 52-year career. During this time he saw only one major battle, although was engaged in one of the most noted frigate actions of the French Revolutionary Wars, the destruction of the ''Droits de l'Homme'', in which his own frigate was driven ashore and wrecked. Reynolds died in 1811 during a great storm in late December, which scattered his convoy and wrecked three ships of the line including his own flagship HMS ''St George''. Over 2,000 British sailors, including Reynolds, were drowned.
==Early career and family==
Reynolds was born in the village of Lamorran in Cornwall in 1745. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 30 July to parents John and Elizabeth Reynolds.〔 Robert Reynolds joined the Royal Navy at 14, under Captain George Edgcumbe in HMS ''Hero'' during the Seven Years' War. A few months after joining the ship, ''Hero'' was engaged in the Battle of Quiberon Bay at which a French fleet was destroyed. Although there is no direct proof of his presence at the action, it is likely that Reynolds was on board and witnessed the engagement first hand.〔 Reynolds remained with the ship for several years and during the 1760s served on HMS ''Brilliant'', HMS ''Pearl'' and HMS ''Venus'', becoming a midshipman and passing the lieutenant's exam in 1770.
Due to the restrictions in the size of the peacetime navy, Reynolds was not actually promoted to lieutenant until 1777, following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.〔(Reynolds, Robert Carthew ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', J. K. Laughton, Retrieved 29 March 2008〕 Reynolds saw action in the war, remaining aboard HMS ''Royal George'', HMS ''Barfleur'' and HMS ''Britannia'' in the Channel Fleet until 1783 when he sailed for the West Indies as commander of the storeship HMS ''Dolphin''. In 1786 he took over the sloop HMS ''Echo'' on the Newfoundland Station and in 1788 returned to Europe, being promoted and made temporary captain of HMS ''Barfleur'' at the Spanish emergency in 1790.〔
He married, at Cardinham, Cornwall 7th December 1779, Jane, daughter of John Vivian. They had at least three children.
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