by John Marshall

“ Brother to the late Captain George Reynolds, R.N., who obtained post rank in April, 1802, and died at Canterbury, Dec. 25th, 1822; also to the late William Reynolds, Esq., who was twenty-five years a clerk in the Admiralty Office, and died in 1811. His only sister married Dr. Edward Boys, who, during the late war, was one of the physicians of Haslar Hospital. ”

“ So greatly were the Norwegian merchants in particular, annoyed by his active and successful exertions against their trade, that they actually offered a considerable reward for the capture of the Hero. ”

“ He was afterwards appointed to the Conqueror 74; and, about May, 1809, to command the hired armed cutter Hero, on the Baltic station. In 1810 he discovered that the harbour of Salo, in the Cattegat, then little known to the English, was a good place of refuge for vessels during gales of wind, blowing on the Swedish coast; and after it had been surveyed, under his directions, both men-of-war and merchantmen frequently took shelter there. ”