John Reynolds (Dublin politician)

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John Reynolds (1797{{cite book|last=O'Hart|first=John|title=Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation|url=http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/Reynolds2Ir.php|access-date=30 September 2017|edition=5th|volume=1|year=1892|chapter=Reynolds (No.2) family pedigree|archive-date=30 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930083941/http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/Reynolds2Ir.php|url-status=live}} – 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,{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-john-reynolds/index.html|title=MPs index : Mr John Reynolds|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|publisher=Millbank Systems|access-date=29 September 2017|archive-date=30 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430213811/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-john-reynolds/|url-status=live}} and Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1850. He was from a prosperous family;Hill 1973 p.92 "Thomas Reynolds (man of property)" in the 1840s he was secretary of the National Bank of Ireland,{{cite book|last=Mokyr|first=Joel|title=Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogbAojxV69UC&pg=PA185|access-date=30 September 2017|date=2005-11-03|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415380546|page=185|archive-date=2021-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927221111/https://books.google.com/books?id=ogbAojxV69UC&pg=PA185|url-status=live}} while his brother Thomas Reynolds was Dublin City Marshal.Hill 1973 p.48

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.Hill 1973 p.129 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.Hill 1973 p.153–154 According to Charles Gavan Duffy, it was proved that Reynolds "accepted money extracted from officers for whom he had procured compensation in Parliament".{{cite book|last=Duffy|first=Charles Gavan|title=The League of north and south : an episode in Irish history, 1850–1854 |url=https://archive.org/stream/leagueofnorthso00duff#page/289/mode/1up|date=1886 |publisher=Chapman and Hall |location=London |page=289}} His grave is in Glasnevin Cemetery.{{cite journal |url=http://digital.libraries.dublincity.ie/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:30256 |first=Martin |last=McChree |date=1998 |title=Alderman John Reynolds headstone (Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1850) |journal=Dublin City Council Photographic Collection |publisher=Dublin City Libraries |access-date=30 September 2017 |archive-date=30 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930131235/http://digital.libraries.dublincity.ie/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:30256 |url-status=live }}; {{cite book|last=O'Duffy|first=Richard J.|title=Historic graves in Glasnevin cemetery|url=https://archive.org/stream/historicgravesin00oduf#page/83/mode/1up|year=1915|publisher=James Duffy|location=Dublin|page=83}}