Reginald Dew, Esq.
(1833-1864)
9 April 1862

Volume6, page 180. sitting number 7590.

Probably the Reginald Dew who appears on the 1861 census,  a 3rd class clerk in the War Office living at 6 Cleveland Row, on the edge of London's Green Park, just off the lower end of St James's Street.

Born at Whitney in Herefordshire on 1 May 1833, he was the sixth son of Tomkyns Dew. He was baptised at Whitney on 27 June 1833.

He died on 24 October 1864 at 26 Ryder Street, St James's. He left effects valued at £200. The abstract of his will describes him as 'late of 47 Albemarle-street.' Probate was granted to his brother 'Roderick Dew of Whitney-court in the County of Hereford Esquire a Captain in the Royal Navy.' 

The following month the Morning Post (5 November 1864) and several other newspapers mentioned that 'There is a vacancy in the accountant-general's branch of the War-office caused by the death of Mr Reginald Dew.'