Thomas Reynolds (bishop)

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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

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

  1. ^ H. E. Salter and Mary D. Lobel, ed. (1954). "Merton College". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford. Victoria County History. pp. 95–106 – via British History Online.
  2. ^ Norman Leslie Jones, The English Reformation: religion and cultural adaptation (2002), p. 116.
  3. ^ Thomas Fowler, Corpus Christi (1898), p. 90.
  4. ^ 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 Warden of Merton College, Oxford
1545–1559
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

1556–1557
Succeeded by
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Hereford
1557–1558
Succeeded by