Background
He was the third son of Richard Reynell (1519–1585) of East Ogwell in Devon.
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Education
"Unto this house, King Charles I, of gracious memory, came, attended on by the Duke of Buckingham, and other great lords, September, 15th 1625, and was pleased to take up his lodging there.
Career
Richard followed his two older brothers, Thomas and Josias into the Middle Temple and in 1617 he was a barrister and Autumn Reader there. In the same year of 1593 he was a clerk in the office of the Lord Treasurer"s Remembrancer and rose to the rank of senior sworn clerk, known as the "secondary". On 25 July 1622 he was knighted at Theobalds House.
Forde House was visited by King Charles I in 1625 both on his way to and on his return from viewing the fleet at Plymouth.
According to John Prince"s The Worthies of Devon, published circa 1701: Sir Richard died in 1633 and was buried on 25 January at Wolborough. His armorials are displayed in stained glass in one of the windows of Middle Temple Hall, and in a window of the hall in Forde House, impaling the arms of Brandon: Argent, two bars gules overall a lion rampant or pelletty.
Membership
In 1593 he was probably Member of Parliament for the Cornish rotten borough of Mitchell together with Walter Raleigh.
