Reynolds, Mary T.

Lloyd George Reynolds was born in the Canadian province of Alberta. He received his B.A. from the University of Alberta (1931), an M.A. from McGill University (1933), and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was an instructor at Harvard, 1936-1939, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, 1939-1945, and joined the Yale University economics department, 1945-1980, serving as chair of the department since 1951. Reynolds was chief economist of the War Manpower Commission, 1942-1943, and a member of the Appeals Committee for the National Labor Relations Board, 1943-1945. He served as founding director of the Yale Economic Growth Center from 1961 to 1967. Reynolds published extensively and is noted for his textbook, Labor Economics and Labor Relations, 1949. He married Mary Fitzmaurice Trackett, an authority on James Joyce, in 1937. Reynolds died at his home in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2005, at age 94.

Mary Fitzmaurice Trackett was born in Milwaukee on January 11, 1913. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. She taught political science at several colleges, as well as a seminar on Irish literature at Yale University, and authored Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination . She married Lloyd George Reynolds in 1937. Mary T. Reynolds died in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2000.

From the guide to the Lloyd G. Reynolds papers, Circa 1937-1988, (Manuscripts and Archives)