Arthur T. F. Reynolds

Who was Arthur T. F. Reynolds?

Arthur Reynolds was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China and Japan under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, which later became the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. He published a number of books, some of which he authored and some of which he translated from the Chinese.

Arthur Reynolds was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, to Thomas Frederick Reynolds, boot clicker, and Edith Emily Reynolds, school teacher. He attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham. On leaving school Arthur Reynolds worked in the telephone section of the General Post Office before applying to the China Inland Mission for work in China. He left for China on 29 September 1933 and after language training was sent to work in the province of Shanxi.

The Second World War meant that he did not return to England for furlough until 1944. It was during this furlough that he went to Wellingborough, Northants, to speak at a missionary meeting and there met Joy Callis, only daughter of Henry and Rhoda Callis, who was to become his wife.

After Reynolds returned to China, Joy Callis followed, sent as a missionary in her own right, also with CIM.