Walter Reynell (MP, Devon)

Walter Reynell (born before 1360 and died after 1424) was an English landowner, soldier, administrator and politician who sat as Member of Parliament for Devon in 1404.

His title to the latter was disputed by a relation, who also claimed custody of his wife's half-brother Robert and alleged that Reynell had forced her sister Clarissa into a nunnery in order to inherit the property.

The case collapsed after the Bishop of Bath and Wells found that Clarissa had entered Buckland Priory of her own free will and was perfectly happy to stay there.

[2] From 1384 to 1386 he acted as attorney in Ireland for St Nicholas' Priory, Exeter, though it is not known how far he entrusted the work to subordinates, and in 1388 he accepted a feoffeeship in Somerset, these two appointments suggesting he had acquired some legal expertise.

[2] After 1410 he seems to have withdrawn from public life in order to concentrate on his Devon estates, centred on Malston where he undertook extensive building works and acquired episcopal licences to have an oratory there.