Thomas Reynolds (bishop)

Thomas Reynolds (also "Reynold" or "Raynolds") (died c.1560) was an English bishop and academic. He was the Warden of Merton College, Oxford from 1545 and was created Bishop of Hereford by Mary I.

Life

A cleric of the reformed Church of England under Edward VI, after the Restoration he was a chaplain to Queen Mary, who gave him preferment and created him Dean of Exeter in 1555. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. On the accession of Elizabeth I, the formalities for his post as bishop were not yet complete and he was deprived. He died in the Marshalsea Prison.^[1]^[2]

Reynolds was the uncle of John Reynolds and William Reynolds, of a family near Pinhoe, Devon. Adam Hamilton has argued for a relationship to Richard Reynolds, and incidentally for an identification of Thomas Reynolds as a Catholic at an earlier period of his life.^[3]^[4]

References

↑ H. E. Salter and Mary D. Lobel, ed. (1954). "Merton College". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford. British History Online. Victoria County History. pp. 95–106.
↑ Norman Leslie Jones, The English Reformation: religion and cultural adaptation (2002), p. 116.
↑ Thomas Fowler, Corpus Christi (1898), p. 90.
↑ Adam Hamilton, The Angel of Syon: the life and martyrdom of Blessed Richard Reynolds, martyred at Tyburn, May 4, 1535 (1905), pp. 91–92.

Academic offices
Preceded by Henry Tindall	Warden of Merton College, Oxford 1545–1559	Succeeded by James Gervase
Preceded by William Tresham	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1556–1557	Succeeded by Thomas Whyte
Church of England titles
Preceded by Robert Parfew	Bishop of Hereford 1557–1558	Succeeded by John Scory

Deans of Exeter

High Medieval	Serlo Roger de Wynkleigh William de Stanwey Roger de Toriz John Noble John Pycot Andrew de Kilkenny

Late Medieval	Henry de Somerset Thomas de Lechlade Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio Richard de Coleton Richard de Braylegh Reginald de Bugwell Robert Sumpter Thomas Walkyngton Ralph Tregrision Stephen Payn John Cobethorn John Hals Henry Webber Peter Courtenay Lionel Woodville John Arundel

Early modern	Edward Willoughby Thomas Hobbes John Vesey Richard Pace Reginald Pole Simon Haynes James Haddon Thomas Reynolds Gregory Dodds George Carew Stephen Townesend Matthew Sutcliffe William Peterson Seth Ward Edward Young George Cary The Hon Richard Annesley William Wake Lancelot Blackburne Edward Trelawney John Gilbert Alured Clarke William Holmes Charles Lyttleton Jeremiah Milles William Buller Charles Harward

Late modern	Charles Talbot George Gordon John Garnett Whittington Landon Thomas Lowe Charles Ellicott The Viscount Midleton Archibald Boyd Benjamin Cowie Alfred Earle Henry Gamble Walter Matthews Spencer Carpenter Alexander Wallace Marcus Knight Clifford Chapman Richard Eyre Keith Jones Jonathan Meyrick Jonathan Draper

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