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 ,’ 1855, London. 25. ‘Ellen Percy,’ 1856, London. 26. ‘The Empress Eugénie's Boudoir,’ 1857, London. The following were published in Dick's Standard Novels series in 1844: 27. ‘The Necromancer.’ 28. ‘The Rye House Plot.’ 29. ‘The Seamstress, or the White Slave of England.’ 30. ‘The Bronze Statue.’ 31. ‘The Days of Hogarth.’ 32. ‘Mary Queen of Scots.’

 REYNOLDS, HENRY (fl. 1630), poet and critic, the friend to whom Drayton addressed his epistle ‘Of Poets and Poesie’ (printed 1627), was the author of: 1. ‘Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht. To this is added Ariadne's Complaint in imitation of Anguillara …,’ London, 1628, 4to (see, Transcript of the Register of the Stationers' Company, iv. 188). 2. ‘Mythomystes, wherein a short Survay is taken of the nature and value of true Poesy, and depth of the Ancients above our modern Poets. To which is annexed the tale of Narcissus briefly mythologized,’ London (1632), 4to. The book is undated; but it was entered as ‘by Henry Reynolds’ on 10 Aug. 1632 (, u.s. iv. 282). Hazlitt (Handbook to Early English Literature, p. 502) mentions an edition of 1643. Payne Collier (Bibliographical Account, &c. i. 553) assigned ‘Mythomystes’ to Reynolds upon the authority of the letters ‘H. R.,’ appended to the dedication to Henry, lord Ma[l]trevers, and upon internal evidence. His ascription is confirmed by the entry above referred to; and a comparison of the ‘Tale of Narcissus’ with the ‘Aminta,’ apart from the evidence of the ‘Stationers' Register,’ leaves no doubt as to their common origin.

Reynolds, of whom beyond his friendship with Drayton no personal fact is known, has verses in Lawes's ‘Ayres and Dialogues,’ 1653 and 1655.

 REYNOLDS, HENRY REVELL, M.D. (1745–1811), physician, son of John Reynolds, was born at Laxton, Nottinghamshire, on 26 Sept. 1745, one month after the death of his father, and was brought up by his maternal great-uncle, Henry Revell of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He was sent to Beverley grammar school, and went thence on 17 March 1763 to Lincoln College, Oxford. He migrated to Trinity College, Cambridge, and, after further study at Edinburgh, graduated M.B. at Cambridge in 1768 and M.D. in 1773. He first practised at Guildford, Surrey, and there married Miss Wilson in April 1770. Dr. Huck Saunders advised him to settle in London, and in the summer of 1772 he took a house in Lamb's Conduit Street. On 30 Sept. 1773 he was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians, and was elected a fellow on 30 Sept. 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 Harveian orator in 1776. He did not print his oration. He was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital on 13 July 1773, and resigned in 1777, when he was elected physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, and so continued till 1783, when his extensive private practice caused him to resign. In 1788 he was asked to attend George III, and in 1797 was appointed physician-extraordinary, and in 1806 physician-in-ordinary. He was challenged by a turbulent licentiate, Dr. Richard Kentish, in November 1787, but the friends of Reynolds properly applied to a magistrate, and the court of king's bench intervened to restrain the violence of 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 House of Lords, broke down his strength; but it was with great difficulty that Dr. John Latham [q. v.] and Dr. Henry Ainslie [q. v.] persuaded him in May to keep his room. He died at his house in Bedford Square on 22 Oct. 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. His grandson, Sir John Russell Reynolds [q. v.], is noticed separately.

 REYNOLDS, JAMES (1686–1739), judge, born at Clerkenwell on 6 Jan. 1685–6, was second son of James Reynolds of Helions Bumpstead, Essex, afterwards of Bury St. Edmunds, by his first wife, Bridget Parker. His grandfather was Sir James Reynolds of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire. Sir John Reynolds [q. v.] and Robert Reynolds (fl. 1640–1660) [q. v.] were his uncles. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1701, proceeded M.A. in 1705, and was elected a fellow. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 11 Nov. 1712, and the same year was elected recorder