15 Facts About Reginald Appleby

Reginald Appleby 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.

Reginald Appleby was born at Portsea Island, Hampshire, England, in 1865 to George Walton Appleby of Durham and Agnes Sterry Tucker of Tankfield, Paget East, Bermuda.

Reginald Appleby's parents had married at St Paul's Church, Paget, on 8 September 1859.

Reginald Appleby's father, at the time, resided in Pembroke, Bermuda, and was an officer in the 26th Regiment of Foot, into which he had been commissioned as an ensign with seniority from 18 August 1854, and promoted to lieutenant with seniority from 30 March 1855.

Reginald Appleby's regiment served as part of the Bermuda Garrison from 1854 until October 1859, after which it sailed to Portsmouth, before being posted to Dublin, Ireland.

Reginald Appleby's father was described in the 1871 census as widowed and "Late Captain Landowner" and in 1881 as "Late Cpt 31st Regmt".

Reginald Appleby's mother was born in Pembroke, Bermuda, on the 5 May 1839, the daughter of Benjamin Jennings Tucker and Catharine Dickinson Tucker.

Reginald Appleby died in 1870 and his father remarried, to Drusilla Matthews, his former servant who had been with the family when his first wife was alive.

Reginald Appleby married Edith Mary Gosling at St Paul's Church, in Paget, Bermuda, on 18 September 1899, and they had a daughter, Prudence Tucker, later Prudence Pearman.

Reginald Appleby served in the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, commissioned as a second-lieutenant with seniority from 9 March 1895.

Reginald Appleby was promoted to major on 5 November 1903, on becoming the commanding officer.

Reginald Appleby remained in command of the BVRC 'til succeeded by Major Richard Jennings Tucker in 1920.

Reginald Appleby was appointed to the Legislative Council of Bermuda in 1928 and according to The Irish Times, citing reports in Bermuda's The Royal Gazette, spoke against the idea of the introduction of an income tax in Bermuda at a Legislative Council meeting in 1940, siding with "those who look on all income tax as man's last refinement of torture, to be resisted at all costs".

Reginald Appleby was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in King George VI's 1947 New Year Honours for "Public services in Bermuda".

Reginald Appleby died on 30 August 1948 at Doctor's Hospital, New York, and was buried at Pembroke Cemetery in Bermuda.