General Sir James Henry Reynett KCB KCH (1786 – 9 August 1864) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

[1][2] His family were descended from Henri de Renêt, a Huguenot from Languedoc who found exile in Ireland in 1688, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

[5] He went on to become Assistant Quartermaster-General in Germany in 1813 and military secretary to the Duke of Cambridge in 1820 before being made Inspector of Foreign outpatients at Chelsea Hospital later in 1820.

[5] He was appointed a Groom of the Bedchamber to William IV in 1831, serving in the royal household until the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.

[9] In 1837 he married Eliza Campbell at Hampton Court Palace.