Thomas Reynolds (Reynold, Raynolds) (died c. 1560) was an English churchman and academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford from 1545, and created bishop of Hereford by Mary I.
A Protestant under Edward VI, he was a chaplain to Queen Mary, who gave him preferment, creating him Dean of Exeter in 1555. He also served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. On the accession of Elizabeth I, the formalities for his post as bishop were not yet complete, and he was deprived. He died in the Marshalsea Prison.[1][2]
He was the uncle of John Reynolds and William Reynolds, of a family near Pinhoe, Devon. Adam Hamilton has argued for a relationship to Richard Reynolds, and incidentally for an identification of Thomas Reynolds as a Catholic at an earlier period of his life.[3][4]