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. 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. ==References==