Leonard William Agnew Rayner b. 31 Jul 1915 Wellington Somerset Uk d. 15 Jul 1994 Claro Yorkshire Uk

1915 - 1994 (78 years)

Name	Leonard William Agnew Rayner
Birth	31 Jul 1915	Wellington Somerset Uk
Gender	Male
Death	15 Jul 1994	Claro Yorkshire Uk [1]
	Quarter 1
Person ID	I201	May
Last Modified	27 Jun 2016

Father	Seaburne Rayner, b. 1877, Liverpool Lancashire Uk d. 7 Nov 1950, The Grange Nursing Home Teignmouth Devon UK (Age 73 years)
Mother	Frances Charlotte Gibbons May, b. 2 Sep 1884, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire UK d. 30 Oct 1959, 58 Wonford Road Exeter Devon UK (Age 75 years)
Marriage	20 Jan 1909	Staplegrove Parsi Taunton [2]
Family ID	F81	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Norah Mary Tytler Ridger, b. 26 Jan 1921, Greenwich London Uk d. 1 Mar 2010 (Age 89 years)

Marriage 1941 Greenwich Kent UK [3]

Notes

Children

	1. Jennifer Mary Frances Rayner, b. 1944, Largs Scotland (Age 81 years)
	2. Margaret Patricia Anne Rayner, b. Jun 1948, Gosport Hampshire UK (Age 77 years)
	3. Christopher Seaburne Harold Rayner, b. 1947, Bath Somerset UK d. 4 Feb 1947, Bath Somerset UK (Age 0 years)

Family ID F86 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 20 Oct 2025

Photos
Leonard and Mary Rayner

Headstones
Leonard Willaim Agnew Rayner and Norah Mary Tytler Rayner

Notes

My father was a Naval Architect and was a member of the RCNC and helped to design the hospital ship which became the Royal Yacht Britannia so interestingly following another relative who helped design a previuos Royal Yacht!!! He and my mother had great fun burning bits of material to test what was inflammable and what was not so as to know what could be used in Britannia. In wartime he held the rank of Lieutenant Commander and had he continued to hold Executive Rank in the post_war years, he would have been a Rear Admiral, but in Peacetime the Corps of Naval Constructors ceased to wear uniform and to carry rank, whilst continuing as an integral part of the Royal Navy.

The last part of this was written by David Say who gave the Eulogy at my father`s funeral.
He spent D-Day +1 in Normandy having gone over with the Mulberry Harbours and then helped to clear the Caen Canal by sending divers down to the sunken ships and then repairing them. [4]