Colonel Sir James Philip Reynolds, 1st Baronet, DSO (17 February 1865 – 12 December 1932) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. Reynolds was born in Woolton, Liverpool and was educated at Ushaw College and Fort Augustus Abbey. He was a senior partner in the firm of Reynolds & Gibson, cotton brokers, of Liverpool. On 4 March 1914, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire. Commissioned into the 1/3rd West Lancashire Brigade,

Royal Field Artillery The Royal Field Artillery (RFA) of the British Army provided close artillery support for the infantry. It came into being when created as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1899, serving alongside the other two arms of t ...

( Territorial Force), he commanded it in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1917. He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament for

Liverpool Exchange Liverpool Exchange was a borough constituency within the city of Liverpool in England, centred on Liverpool Exchange railway station. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, ele ...

, following the retirement of the Conservative MP Sir Leslie Scott. He was re-elected in

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, and died in office in 1932, aged 67. Reynolds was

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in the 1920 New Year Honours and created a baronet, of Woolton in the County of Lancaster, on 6 March 1923. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1927.

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* * * *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

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