Edward Reynolds (politician)

Edward Russell Thomas Reynolds QC (16 April 1892 – 13 July 1971) was an Australian politician.

Born at Walhalla, Victoria, to lawyer Thomas O'Loghlen Reynolds and Jane Mary Hutchinson, he attended Coburg State School, Carlton College and Melbourne University, receiving his Bachelor of Law in 1913. He was called to the bar in 1915 but in that year enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, serving until 1919 as a subaltern in France and Belgium. He married Edna Florence Davy, with whom he had two daughters; later, in 1935, he would marry Joan Nicholls, with whom, again, he had two daughters. He was President of the Law Council of Australia from 1947 to 1948 and leader of the Victorian Bar from 1946 to 1952. In 1948 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in a by-election for the seat of Toorak, representing the Liberal Party; he served until his resignation in 1952. Reynolds died in 1971 at East Prahran.[1]

He is survived by two daughters, Julia and Leslie.

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