Edward Osmund Royle Reynolds

Edward Osmund Royle Reynolds (born 3 February 1933, in Brighton - died 24 April 2017),

Life Edmunds was the son of Edward Reynolds, a solicitor, and his wife, Edna (née Jones). He was educated at St Paul's School, London, then qualified at St Thomas' Hospital in 1958, interrupting his course to study science with Henry Barcroft and Maureen Young.

Reynolds was a world championship fencer, winning a bronze in the team event in the 1955 World Fencing Championships.

Career In 1962, Reynolds travelled to the United States as a research fellow with Dav Cook visiting both the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. While there, they researched hyaline membrane disease. After a quick visit to Yale School of Medicine, Reynolds returned to the UK in 1964, taking an appointment at the Department of Paediatrics at University College Hospital in London, working under Professor Leonard B. Strang and to help him establish a unit to study the fetal and neonatal lung. This collaboration led to team which produced a series of remarkable reports on pathophysiology. Dawson-Williams Memorial Prize, Harding Award Maternité Prize. Reynolds was appointed a CBE in 1995 and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.