Henry Revell Reynolds (26 September 1745 – 22 October 1811) was an English physician.

Life

He was born in

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, the son of John Reynolds, one month after the death of his father, and was brought up by his maternal great-uncle, Henry Revell of

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. He was sent to Beverley Grammar School, and went thence on 17 March 1763 to

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. He migrated to

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, and, after further study at

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, graduated M.B. at Cambridge in 1768 and M.D. in 1773. Reynolds first practised at

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. Richard Huck advised him to settle in London, and in the summer of 1772 he took a house in

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. On 30 September 1773 he was admitted a candidate of the

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, and was elected a fellow on 30 September 1774. He was one of the censors of the college in 1774, 1778, 1782, 1784, 1787, and 1792; was its registrar from 1781 to 1783, Gulstonian lecturer in 1775, and

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in 1776. He did not print his oration. He was elected physician to the

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on 13 July 1773, and resigned in 1777, when he was elected physician to St. Thomas's Hospital. He continued there till 1783, when his extensive private practice caused him to resign. In 1788 he was asked to attend

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, and in 1797 was appointed physician-extraordinary, and in 1806

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. He was challenged to a duel by Dr. Richard Kentish, in November 1787, but his friends applied to a magistrate, and the

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intervened to restrain Kentish. The fatigues of attending upon the king at Windsor, added to an exhausting examination on the king's illness, during which he had to stand for two hours before the

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, broke down his strength; but it was with difficulty that John Latham and

Henry Ainslie Henry Ainslie (21 March 1760 – 1834) was a physician. He was the son of the Kendal physician James Ainslie. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he graduated Senior Wrangler and was second in the S ...

persuaded him in May to keep to his room. Reynolds died at his house in

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, London, on 22 October 1811 and was buried at St. James's cemetery, Hampstead Road. He was much attached to the College of Physicians, and in his own large practice was known for his great care and lucidity, and for his skill in prescribing.

Family

Reynolds married Elizabeth Wilson in 1770. Their children included: *Henry Revell Reynolds (1775–1854), a barrister. The Treasury solicitor Henry Revell Reynolds (1800–1866), maternal grandfather of

Annie Rogers Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers (15 February 1856 – 28 October 1937) was a British promoter of women's education. She had an offer of a university place at the University of Oxford withdrawn when it was realised that the candidate was female. Sh ...

, was his son. *John Reynolds (1782–1862), Congregational minister, father of

John Russell Reynolds Sir John Russell Reynolds, 1st Baronet (22 May 1828 – 29 May 1896) was a British neurologist and physician. Reynolds was born in Romsey, Hampshire, as son of John Reynolds, an independent minister, and grandson of Dr. Henry Revell Reynolds. ...

and

Henry Robert Reynolds Henry Robert Reynolds (26 February 1825 – 10 September 1896) was an English Congregational minister, college head and writer. Life Born at Romsey, Hampshire on 26 February 1825, he was the grandson of Henry Revell Reynolds, and the elder son o ...

Notes

External links

Munk's Roll
College of Physicians

1812 * Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Henry Revell People from Newark and Sherwood (district) 1745 births 1811 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Beverley Grammar School Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Physicians-in-Ordinary Burials in England