Sir James Reynolds, 1st Baronet

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Sir James Philip Reynolds, 1st Baronet (17 February 186512 December 1932) was a businessman and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Reynolds was a senior partner in the firm of Reynolds & Gibson, cotton brokers, of Liverpool. He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Exchange, following the retirement of the Conservative MP Sir Leslie Scott. He was re-elected in 1931, and died in office in 1932 aged 67.

Reynolds was made a Baronet, of Woolton in the County of Lancaster, in 1923. He died in December 1932, aged 67.

[edit] References

  • Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Leslie Scott
Member of Parliament for Liverpool Exchange
19291932
Succeeded by
John Joseph Shute
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
new creation
Baronet
(of Woolton)
1923–1932
Succeeded by
John Renolds