son Richard, succeeded as second baronet. His younger brother Henry (died 1721) practised at the Bar in Dublin. His sister Elizabeth married the politician William Richardson of Legacorry, County Armagh in 1695, but had no issue. While Sir Richard and Lady (Hester) Reynell were travelling in France in 1682 Hester died at Abbeville; Reynell brought her body home to Devonshire for burial. His Dublin residence was on Church Street, adjacent to the present Four Courts. He also acquired a house adjacent to the King's Inns, which had been built in the 1630s by Sir Richard Osbaldeston, the Attorney General for Ireland, and later belonged to his son William Osbaldeston, a barrister. Reputation Reynell's professional success owed something to his upper-class background: unlike most Irish judges at that time, he could deal with men like Essex and Ormonde as social equals. At the same time, his legal ability was acknowledged even by his critics, though there was probably a falling off of his mental powers in his later years. Ball calls him one of the most remarkable Irish judges of the era. References Members of the Parliament of England for Ashburton Members of the Middle Temple English MPs 1690–1695 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Meath constituencies 1626 births 1699 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Lords chief justice of Ireland Irish MPs 1661–1666 Richard Serjeants-at-law (Ireland)