BIRCH REYNARDSON, William (Bill) Robert Ashley (1924-2017)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph and Times of 7 July 2017: BIRCH REYNARDSON Bill died peacefully at Adwell on 4th July 2017 aged 93. Family funeral at Adwell. Thanksgiving Service will be announced.

He was s of Lt-Col Henry Thomas BIRCH REYNARDSON (1892-1972), scion of the gentry family of that name of Ardwell House. He m 1950 (reg Q4 London) Pamela Matnika (1923-97) d of Lt-Gen Sir Edward Thomas HUMPHREYS KCB CMG DSO (1878-1955) and Dorothy Grace PENTON (1891-1967), and had issue:

1. Thomas H[enry] (b 1956 reg Q4 London), m 1982 (reg Q4 Wiltshire) Imogen Mary dau of J A CALDECOTT of Ramsbury, Wiltshire, and had: (1) George William (b 1985 reg Q1 London); (2) William Andrew (b 1989 reg Q2 London); and (1) Daisy Mary (b 1986 reg Q3 London) 

1. Juliet Rosamund (b c1952 reg Q1 London)

2. Clare D[orothy] (b 1954 reg Q3 London), m c1984 reg Q1 Oxfordshire Adrian T s of David H L HOPKINSON of Polling Priory, Arundel, Sussex, and had: (1) Frederick Henry b 1985 reg Q1 London; (2) Nicholas David (b c1987 reg Q1 London); (3) Gordon James (b 1988 reg Q2 London) and (1) Iola Sara (b 1991 reg Q1 London); ).

[Aethelflaed]

Pamela Matnika! Wonderful creativity characteristic of so many British aristocratic and gentry women's given names of the 1910s and 1920s.