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RICHARD REYNOLDS, F.C.S. 
Mr. Pvicliard Reynolds, who was elected a member of this 
Society in the 3'ear 1864:, served as a member of its Council 
since 1870, and was elected a Vice-President at the Annual 
Meeting at Bradford in 1891, died at his house, Cliff Road, 
Hyde Park, Leeds, on April 5th, 1900. He was known and 
valued by all students of science in Leeds, and one might almost 
say in Yorkshire. A short account of his useful but unostenta- 
tious career will be of interest to those who worked with him 
for so many years. 
Mr. Reynolds came of an old Quaker stock, being descended 
from John Gurney, the "prisoner of Norwich," who was shut 
up during three years in gaol for refusing to take a prescribed 
oath. He was born at Banbury in 1829, being the eldest son 
of an apothecary, who died when the boy was only four years 
old. At fourteen Richard Reynolds left school, and was appren- 
ticed to James Deane, a chemist on Clapham Common. Had 
his training been prolonged he would have made an excellent 
scholar, for his aptitude for science was remarkable, and his 
knowledge of books was in after 3^ears that of a cultivated man. 
In spite of a scanty education he was able to take the first 
places in both botany and chemistry at the very first examina- 
tion held by the Pharmaceutical Society. This early distinction, 
and some relationship between the Deanes and the Harveys, may 
hav^e brought Reynolds to Leeds, where he soon became partner 
to the late Thomas Harvey. The firm of Harvey <k, Reynolds 
became very prosperous, but it is remarkable not only for its 
commercial success, but for the public services of members of 
the firm. AVilliam West, F.R.S., Thomas Harvey, and Richard 
Reynolds kept up for at least eighty years a succession of 
cultivated and public-spirited citizens — all good friends of science 
and education. Both West and Reynolds became in succession 
lecturers on chemistry at the Leeds Medical School, and Hon. 
Secretaries to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Societ}^. 
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