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 and then Carlton College where he matriculated in 1908 top of his class. On leaving school, he went to Trinity College, at the University of Melbourne, where he won the Henry Berthon Scholarship in December 1909 for the 1910 academic year and received his Bachelor of Law in 1913. He contested, unsuccessfully, the 1914 Federal Election, in the seat of Maribyrnong. When the election was called, he was 22 years old, but had already done "much valuable work at the last Federal election, and has shown considerable debating ability. As a member of the Trinity College Dialectic Socie