John Reynolds (1797[1] – 21 August 1868) was an Irish Repeal Association politician who was a Westminster M.P. for Dublin City from the 1847 election to the 1852 election,[2] and Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1850. He was from a prosperous family;[3] in the 1840s he was secretary of the National Bank of Ireland,[4] while his brother Thomas Reynolds was Dublin City Marshal.[5]
Reynolds regarded the Repeal Association as a vehicle for advancing the local interest of Dublin rather than the constitutional question of repeal of the Acts of Union 1800.[6] The Dublin merchant and trade lobby lost influence in the Association to professional men in the mid-1840s, but regained it after Daniel O'Connell's death in May 1847, with Reynolds, then an alderman, coming to prominence.[7] According to Charles Gavan Duffy, it was proved that Reynolds "accepted money extracted from officers for whom he had procured compensation in Parliament".[8] His grave is in Glasnevin Cemetery.[9]
References
Citations
- ↑ O'Hart, John (1892). "Reynolds (No.2) family pedigree". Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Vol. 1 (5th ed.). Archived from the original on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ↑ "MPs index : Mr John Reynolds". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Millbank Systems. Archived from the original on 30 April 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ↑ Hill 1973 p.92 "Thomas Reynolds (man of property)"
- ↑ Mokyr, Joel (3 November 2005). Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 185. ISBN 9780415380546. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ↑ Hill 1973 p.48
- ↑ Hill 1973 p.129
- ↑ Hill 1973 p.153–154
- ↑ Duffy, Charles Gavan (1886). The League of north and south : an episode in Irish history, 1850–1854. London: Chapman and Hall. p. 289.
- ↑ McChree, Martin (1998). "Alderman John Reynolds headstone (Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1850)". Dublin City Council Photographic Collection. Dublin City Libraries. Archived from the original on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.; O'Duffy, Richard J. (1915). Historic graves in Glasnevin cemetery. Dublin: James Duffy. p. 83.
Sources
- Hill, Jacqueline R. (1973). The role of Dublin in the Irish National Movement 1840–48 (PDF) (PhD). University of Leeds. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- Hill, Jacqueline R. (2007). "The 1847 election in Dublin City". In Blackstock, Allan; Magennis, Eoin (eds.). Politics and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1750–1850: Essays in Tribute to Peter Jupp. Ulster Historical Foundation. pp. 41–64. ISBN 9781903688687. Retrieved 30 September 2017.