Reginald Appleby: Difference between revisions

|birth_datebranch = 1865[[British Army|Army]]

|unitawards = [[Commander =of the Order of the British BermudaEmpire|CBE]], [[Volunteer RifleOfficers' CorpsDecoration|VD]]

|spouse = Edith Mary Gosling

|children = Prudence Tucker

'''Reginald Woodifield Appleby''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|VD}} (18 September 1865 – 30 August 1948) was an English lawyer, practising in [[Bermuda]], who in [[1898]] founded the predecessor of the law firm that now trades as [[Appleby (law firm)|Appleby]]. He served as a major in the [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]] during the [[First World War]], and was a member of the Legislative Council of Bermuda.

His parents had married at St. Paul's Church (Church of England), Paget, on 8 September 1859. His father, at the time, resided in [[Pembroke Parish|Pembroke]], Bermuda, and was an officer in the [[26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot]], into which he had been commissioned as an Ensignensign with seniority from 18 August 1854, and promoted to Lieutenantlieutenant with seniority from 30 March 1855. His regiment served as part of the [[Bermuda Garrison]] from 1854 until October 1859 (with the Regimental Depot at [[Belfast]], [[Ireland]]), after which it sailed to Portsmouth, before being posted to [[Dublin]], Ireland. His father was described in the [[1871 Census of the United Kingdom|1871 census]] as widowed and "Late Captain Landowner"<ref name="1871cen">{{Cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFDV-FYW |title=George W Appleby |website=Family Search |access-date=6 November 2017 |department=England and Wales Census, 1871}}</ref> and in [[1881 Census of the United Kingdom|1881]] as "Late Cpt 31st Regmt".<ref name="1881cen">{{Cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q274-NDYC |title=George W Appleby |website=Family Search |access-date=6 November 2017 |department=England and Wales Census, 1881}}</ref> Reginald had three brothers and a sister.<ref name="1871cen" />

Reginald Appleby married Edith Mary Gosling<ref name="death">{{Cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WYC-P3X |title=Reginald Appleby |website=Family Search |access-date=9 November 2017 |department=New York City City Municipal Deaths}}</ref> at St. Paul's Church, in Paget, Bermuda, on the 18 September 1899, and they had a daughter, Prudence Tucker (1905–1976), later Prudence Pearman. The family lived in Westmoreland, [[Pembroke Parish]], Bermuda.<ref>''Home Journal'', Hearst Corporation, Vol. 84 (1929), p. 38.</ref><ref>''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage'', Kelly's Directories, 1973.</ref>

Appleby passed his final law exams in England in November 1887.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Incorporated Law Society|newspaper=The Times|date=19 November 1887|page= 4}}</ref> He was in partnership with [[Reginald Gray (lawyer)|Reginald Gray]], later Sir Reginald Gray, attorney-general of Bermuda, from 1893 to 1897 in Bermuda as Gray & Appleby.<ref>''Who's Who in Canada'', Vol. 25. International Press, 1936. p. 350.</ref> In 1898 he founded his own eponymous law firm.<ref name="irish">[https://www.irishtimes.com/business/appleby-the-offshore-law-firm-with-a-record-of-compliance-failures-1.3280860 Appleby, the offshore law firm with a record of compliance failures.] Will Fitzgibbon, ''The Irish Times'', 5 November 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.</ref> By 1903 he was a [[justice of the peace]] when he sat on the marine court of inquiry into the wreck of the [[S.S. Madiana|S.S. ''Madiana'']].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/scclibraries/wreckreports2002/18445.asp |title=Wreck Report for 'Madiana', 1903|publisher=Port Cities Southampton|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> In 1938 he and [[Sir Dudley Spurling]] merged their practices to establish Appleby & Spurling.<ref>{{cite book|title=Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory: Vol. 2: North America, South America, Central America, & the Caribbean|publisher=Martindale-Hubbell|location=New Providence|date=2003|ISBN=9781561605897|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/internationallaw01mart}}</ref> The year after Appleby's death in 1948, that firm merged with William Kempe to become Appleby Spurling Kempe (or Kemp), one of the predecessors of the firm that now trades as [[Appleby (law firm)|Appleby]], the firm at the centre of the [[Paradise Papers]] leaks in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41878881 |title=Paradise Papers: Who are Appleby, the lawyers at the centre of the leak?

|date=5 November 2017 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=6 November 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>[https://www.applebyglobal.com/publication-pdf/site-pdfs/appleby-timeline---april-2016-(2).pdf ''Our History''.] Appleby, 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2017. [https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/6uorxKLUQ?url=web/20171106011650/https://www.applebyglobal.com/publication-pdf/site-pdfs/appleby-timeline---april-2016-(2).pdf Archived here.]</ref>

He served in the [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]] (BVRC), commissioned as a Secondsecond-Lieutenantlieutenant with seniority from 9 March 1895. In 1900 he was the acting Adjutantadjutant, with the rank of captain. On 12 April 1901, the Officer Commanding Troops of the [[Bermuda Garrison]] received notification that the [[Governor of Bermuda|Governor and military Commander-in-Chief]] had appointed Captain ''R.W. Appleby'', BVRC, to be a Captain with the [[Bermuda Cadet Corps|Cadet Corps]] at [[Saltus Grammar School]] (dated 11 February).<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=1901-04-16 |title=Extracts From Brigade Orders |work=The Royal Gazette |page=1 |location=City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |quote=Extracts from Brigade Orders. Head Quarter Office, Prospect, 12th April, 1901. His Excellency the General Commanding has received notification that the Commander-in-Chief has approved of the following resignation and appointments :— The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, Lieutenant A. Inglis resigns his Commission. Dated 19th March, 1901. Cadet Corps (Saltus Grammar School) attached to Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, Captain R. W. Appleby, Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, to be Captain. Dated 11th February, 1901. W. J. B. Butterfield, Gent, to be Lieutenant. Dated 11th February, 1901. A Court of Enquiry, will assemble at [[Prospect Camp, Bermuda|Prospect]] at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, the 16th instant, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances under which 5 boxes containing small arm ammunition were lost overboard whilst being transferred from SS. Cayo Blanco to Army Service Corps lighter, and reporting upon whom the cost of making good the same should fall. Proceedings, in duplicate, to be forwarded to the C. O. O. It is notified for general information that the following increased rates of commuted allowance in lieu of fuel and light will take effect from the 1st instant, under War Office authority No 53 (Bermuda) 5018, dated 25/3/01......}}</ref> He was promoted to Majormajor on 5 November 1903, on becoming the Commandingcommanding Officerofficer. In 1916 he was awarded the [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29656/page/6745/data.pdf |title=War Office, 5th July 1916|newspaper=The London Gazette|date=7 July 1916|page= 6745}}</ref> During the [[First World War]], the BVRC fulfilled its role within the Bermuda Garrison while also sending a contingent of 88 other ranks under the command of Appleby's cousin, Captain Richard Jennings Tucker, to join the 1st Battalion of the [[Lincolnshire Regiment]] on the Western Front in June 1915. <ref>The Royal Gazette, 26 January 1915: ''B.V.R.C. The Active Service Contingent. Memorandum From His Excellency The Governor. Appeal For Recruits''.</ref><ref>The Royal Gazette, 6 May 1915: ''Two Generations from St. David’sDavid's''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/49804/pembroke-wesleyan-cemetery/ |title=PEMBROKE WESLEYAN CEMETERY|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|accessdate=9 November 2017}}</ref> Appleby remained in command of the BVRC 'til succeeded by Major Richard Jennings Tucker (later Lieutenantlieutenant-Colonelcolonel) in 1920 (another cousin, Lieutenant-Colonel AT Gosling, ED, was to be Commandingcommanding Officerofficer from 1935 to 1941). The BVRC (renamed the ''Bermuda Rifles'' in 1949) was amalgamated with the [[Bermuda Militia Artillery]] to form the [[Royal Bermuda Regiment]] in 1965, with Lieutenant-Colonel John Brownlow Tucker, another cousin, becoming the first Commandingcommanding Officerofficer).<ref>[http://www.bermudaregiment.bm/about/history Royal Bermuda Regiment: ''History''].</ref>

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