Facts: - battles: french de l'homme '' napoleonic wars bombardment of acre , 1840 revolutionary operations against brazilian slavers , 1849-1852 wars destruction of the '' droits - death date: 3 august 1861 - allegiance: united kingdom united kingdom - rank: admiral - awards: knight grand cross of the order of the bath - birth date: 1786 - serviceyears: 1795 to 1861 - name: sir barrington reynolds - branch: 22px royal navy - death place: penair , cornwall - birth place: penair , cornwall Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of barrington reynolds .
admiral sir barrington reynolds , gcb -lrb- 1786 -- 3 august 1861 -rrb- , was a senior and long-serving officer of the british royal navy who went to sea with his father aged only nine during the french revolutionary wars and was captured by the french aged eleven .returning to service on his release soon afterwards , reynolds experienced the successive deaths of his elder brother and his father on active service during the napoleonic wars as well as severe bouts of ill-health himself .leaving the service at the end of the war , reynolds returned to the navy in the 1840s after an absence of thirty years and played a major role in the final destruction of the illegal trade in african slaves to brazil .reynolds was honoured for this service and retired again to his family seat in cornwall , where he died aged 75 .