A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Macdonald, Reginald John James George
MACDONALD. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Reginald John James George Macdonald is eldest son of Reginald Geo. Macdonald, Captain and Chief of Clanranald, a Deputy-Lieutenant for Inverness, by Lady Caroline Anne Edgcumbe, second daughter of Richard, second Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. One of his sisters is married to Hon. Chas. Cust, second son of the Earl of Brownlow; and another to the Hon. and Rev. Alfred Wodehouse, youngest son of Lord Wodehouse.
This officer entered the Navy 11 May, 1833; passed his examination 8 May, 1839; and, after having served in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Howe 120, Capts. Sir Watkin Owen Pell and Robt. Smart, flag-ship latterly of Sir Fras. Mason, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Dec. 1842. His appointments have since been – 15 Feb.
1843, again to the Howe, commanded at the time by Capt. Thos. Forrest – 3 Nov. 1843, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, off Lisbon – and, 30 May, 1844, to the Collingwood 80, Capt. R. Smart, bearing the flag in the Pacific of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour, to whom he became Signal-Lieutenant 20 Jan. 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.