John Reynolds (1584 â 1614), or John Reinolds, was an English epigrammatist.
Reynolds was born at Toddington, Bedfordshire, in 1584. He was elected in 1597 to a scholarship at Winchester College. Afterward, he proceeded to New College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 12 February 1601âÂÂ2. He was elected fellow in 1602, and graduated B.C.L. in 1607. He was esteemed âÂÂa good Grecian orator and poet,â and projected a collection of a thousand Latin epigrams on kings, bishops, barons, doctors, knights, and the like, to be arranged in ten centuries. A very small part of the design was executed. A first instalment, consisting of 111 distiches on British kings and queens, appeared in 1611 with the title âÂÂEpigrammata Avctore Joanne Reinolds in LL. Baccalaureo Novi Collegij socioâ (Bodleian). A second part, dealing with bishops, was published, according to Wood, in 1612; but no copy seems known, and the scheme went no further. Reynolds contributed some Greek verses to a collection of poems by members of New College, to the memory of Ralph Warcop, entitled âÂÂEncomion Rodolphi Warcoppi,â Oxford, 1605, and Bliss identifies him with the author of a pedestrian English poem, entitled âÂÂDolarnys Primerose in the first part of the Passionate Hermit,â 1606; Dolarnys is a transposition of âÂÂRaynoldsâ (cf. Collier, Poet. Dec. ii. 15âÂÂ17; Park, British Bibliographer, i. 153; Lowndes, Bibl. Manual, ed. Bohn). He died in 1614, and was buried in New College cloister.