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 RENOUF] KNIGHTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE is a civil engineer ; consulting engineer for State railways to Sec. of State for India, and for inany Indian and other railways ; designed the Sukkur bridge over the Indus (opened 1889). Residences —23, Russell Square, W.C. ; 8, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W. RENOUF, Lady (Knt.'s widow). — Ludowika, dau. of Christian Brentano la Roche, of Frankfort. M. 1857, Sir Peter le Page Renouf, the leading authority on the language and literature of ancient Egypt, and late keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, and pre^i. of the Biblical Archaeological Soc, who d. 7 Oct. 1897. Residence — 40, Roland Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. RENWICK, Lady (Knt.'s widow). — Elizabeth, dau. of John Saunders, of London, solicitor. M. 26 March, 1868, Sir Arthur Renwick, who was b. 30 May, 1837 ; creat. Knt. Bach. 1894 ; M.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. Eng., etc. ; ent. N.S. Wales Parliament 1880 ; minister for Mines 1881-3, of Public Instruction 1886 ; M.L.C. since 1889 ; J.P. for the colony, and d. 23 Nov. 1908. Resi- dence — Abbotsford, Paramatta River, N.S. Wales. REWAH, Maharaja of, G.C.S.L Great. 1897.— H.H. ]Iahara,ia Sir Venkat Raman Singh Bahadur, s. of late Maharaja, and H.H. the Chandelin Maharani, dau. of Lai Vijaya Bahadur Singh, a subordinate Chandel Thakur in the Rewah State. B. at Kripalpur, Rewah State, 23 July, 187G ; m. 1st, 1892 ; m. 2nd, 1896 : ra. 3rd, 1907 ; ed. privately under European and Indian tutors : sue. 4 Feb. 1880 ; is entitled to salute of 17 guns. Residences — Rewah ; Govindgai'h : and Sutna ; all in Rewah State, Central India. REYNOLDS, Knt. Bach. Great. 1903. — Sir Alfred Reynolds, 5th s. of the late William Reynolds, of Highgate. B. 1850 ; m. 1876, Emily Margaret, dau. of the late Alexander Boyd, J.P. ; ed. at Glewer House, Windsor, and in Germany ; officer of the Order of the Crown of I Italy : Sheriff of the City of London 1903-4 ; J. P.. [ London, Middlesex (late chrmn. of the Highgate ^ bench), and Herts ; High Sheriff of Herts, Deputy Chairman Hertford Quarter Sessions, 1910-11 ; one of H.M. Lieutenants for the City of London ; visiting justice of H.SL prisons at Holloway and late of Brixton ; chrmn. visiting board State Inebriate Reformatory, Aylesbury ; chrmn. Holloway Prison Aid Socy. ; commis- sioner of taxes for Herts ; hon. sec. Hertfordshire Foxhounds. Residence — Ayot Bury, Welwyn, Herts. Clubs — Junior Carlton ; Bath. Issue living — 1. Capt. Alan Bovd lU'ynolds, 12tli Lancers, b. 12 March, 1879. 2. Capt. Gerald Nairne Heynolds, 21st Lancers, b. 10 Nov. 1880 ; ni. 30 June, 1914, Marjorio Florence, dau. of Thomas Fcnwiek Harrison, of Kings Walden, Bury, Herts. 3. Capt. f4uy Franklin Reynolds, 9th Lancers, b. 19 Jan. 1886. 1. F;nilyn JIargaret. ni. Maj. C. L. Js'ornian, M.Y.O. the Guides, s. of late F. M. Sir Henry Xorman. REYNTIENS, Lady Alice Josephine (Knt.'s widow). — Dau. of 7th Earl of Abingdon. M. 1st, 1 Feb. 1890, Sir Gerald Portal, K.G.M.G., C.B., a distinguislied diplomatist, who displayed great capacity as Consul-Gen. in Egypt and at Zanzibar, and d. 25 Jan. 1894, in his 37th year, on his return from Uganda, where he had been dispatched as special commissioner to report on ^^-hether the country should be retained or aban- doned. In recognition of his services a Civil List pension of £150 was awarded to his widow ; m. 2nd, 5 Oct. 1897 Maj. Robert Reyntiens (d. 1913), of the Belgian artillery, and "A.D.G. to the King of the Belgians. Residence — 27, Boulevard Bischoffsheim, Brussels. RHYS, Privy Counsellor. Apptd. 1911 ; Kj Bach. 1907. — Rt. Hon. Sir John Rhys. 1840 ; m. 1872, Elizabeth (d. 29 April, 191 dau. of John Davies, of Llanberis, N. Wale ed. at Bangor Normal Coll., and Oxford (1st el; litt. hufn.) and at the Sorbonne, College France, Heidelberg, Leipsic, and Gottinge H.M. inspector of schools for Flint and Denbi 1871 ; professor of Celtic, Oxford Univ. sirj 1877; Hibbert lecturer 1886; Rhind lectui| on archaeology, Edinburgh, 1889 ; preside ij anthroi^ological section Brit. Assoc. 1900 ; feU(| of Merton Coll. Oxon 1869 ; hon. fellow Jesi Coll. Oxon 1877, fellow 1881 ; principal of Jesj Coll. since 1895; hon. LL.D. Edinburgh 189: hon. D.Litt. L'niversity of Wales 1902; serv ^ on departmental committee on Welsh educati' 1881 ; as secretary to roj'al cominissions on tit, agitation in Wales 1887, and on Welsh Sundi closing 1889 ; on roy. commissions on land i Wales 1893, on Irish ITniversity education 19c| and on Mosely's education commission to U.S.u 1903, on Irish Nat. Univ. Commn. 1908 ; chrm[ of the royal cominission on ancient monument in Wales, 1908; is fellow of Brit. Academh Residence — Jesus College, Oxford. I RICE, K.C.B. Great. 1914; CLE. 1884.-1 Admiral Sir Ernest Rice, s. of Edward RoyiJ Rice, of Dane Court. Kent. B. 24 Feb. 184(| m. 1st, Laura, dau. of Edward York, of WighJ Park, Tadcaster ; m. 2nd, Fanny, dau. of ClintC' George DaAvkins, and widow of Lieut. -Cc I Gunning, King's Roy. Rifles, gazetted command^; 1870,capt. 1878, naval attache 1879-83, rear-adrj 1893 ; vice-jires. Ordnance Select Comm. 1894? 96 ; adm. sup. Portsmouth Dockyard, 1896-9t! vice-adm. 1899; was serving in H.M.S. "Odinj at the bombardment of Boiuarsund 1855 ; presei/i at bombardment of Sveaborg (medal), arrangelt with French Minister of Marine in Paris ISSii for joint occupation of Egypt ; served in Egyj j 1882 (medal and bronze star), coinmanded Coas guard and Naval Reserve 1904. Residence- Sibbertswold Place, Dover. Issue — 1. Dau. SPRING-RICE, Privy Counsellor. Apptd. 1913 G.C.V.O. 1908 : K.C.M.G. 1906.— Rt. Hoi Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, s. of Hor Charles Spring-Rice, late assistant under secretar foreign office, and Elizabeth, dau. of Williar Marshall, of Patterdale Hall, Cumberland, lat M.P. W. Cumberland. B. in London, 27 Fel 1859; m. 1 June, 1904, Florence, dau. of Rl Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles, G.C.B., H.M. ambasss dor at Berlin ; ed. at Eton (King's scholar) an Oxford (exhibitioner, 1st class mods, and classicf finals) ; ent. Foreign Office as clerk 1883 ; assi priv. .sec. to late Earl Granville 1884-5 ; preci writer to Earl of Rosebery 1886 ; act. 3rd sec Washington 1886—8, and 2nd sec. and sec. t British delegates to International inaritime confei ence 1889 : 2nd sec. successively at Brussels an Tokio 1891, at Washington 1893, Berlin 189f and Constantinople 1898 ; sec. of legation a Teheran 1898, and charge d'affaires' 1900-1 apptd. commnr. of public debt Egypt 1901' counsellor H.M. embassy Petrograd 190c' charge d'affaires 1905 ; H.M. minister at Teherai 1906-8 ; envoy extra, and luinister plenipo. a Stockholm 1908-13 ; ambassador at Washingtoi from 1913; has the 1st class Medjidie, and Is, class Polar Star. Residence — British Embassy Washington, U.S.A. Clubs — St. James's ; Tra vellers'. Issue — Anthony Theodore Spring-Eice, b. 1 May, 190G. .Alary Elizabeth Spring. RICHARDS, K.C.S.L Great. 1909.— Sir HENR-i! Erle Richards, s. of Rev. H. W. P. Richards Preb. of St. Paul's Gath., by Jessie, dau. of th(l