Thomas Reynolds (1752–1829) was an English

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and minister.

Biography

Born in 1752, he was the son of Joseph Reynolds, a clergyman, of

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, and belonged to the family of Dr.

Edward Reynolds Edward Reynolds (November 1599 – 28 July 1676) was a bishop of Norwich in the Church of England and an author.Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Prepared by the Rev. John M'Clintock, D.D., and James Strong, S ...

, bishop of Norwich. He matriculated from

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, on 18 October 1769, and graduated with a B.A. in 1773, M.A. in 1777. In 1776 he was presented to the rectory of

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, Northamptonshire, which he held till his death, and to the vicarage of

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, which he resigned in 1802. He was also vicar of Lubbenham from 1787 to 1800. Reynolds died on 24 December 1829. He had married early in life. His eldest son, Joseph, died in 1805, in his nineteenth year.

Works

Reynolds wrote on Roman antiquities in ''

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'', and in 1794 communicated to Nichols, for his ''History of Leicestershire'', observations on the Foss and Via Devana (vol. i. p. cliv) and remarks on Lubbenham and Farndon camps (ii. 700). His major work was ''Iter Britanniarum; or that part of the Itinerary of Antoninus which relates to Britain, with a new Comment'',

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, 1799. The book was severely handled in the ''

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'' in an article attributed to Whitaker. Reynolds had collected and arranged the material that had accumulated since the publication of John Horsley's ''Britannia''; and William Bennet, bishop of Cloyne, who examined the proof-sheets, declared that the author had made many ingenious observations, though he had the odd idea that he could judge better of Roman roads ‘by consulting books in his closet than by examining them on the spot’.

References

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