Reginald Ernest Roy Schilling (30 August 1896 – 7 May 1979) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to blacksmith Frederick William Carl Schilling and Isabella Cameron. He attended state schools and became a law clerk in 1910, studying at night school and

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before qualifying as a solicitor. He served with the Australian Recruit Depot Battalion in 1918, and in 1925 was called to the bar. Around 1929 he married Iris Gwendoline Colthurst, with whom he had a daughter, Marlene, born in Melbourne in 1934. During

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he served in the

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, and after the war he returned to university, qualifying for his BA and

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. In 1947 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Albert Park, but he was defeated in 1950. A supporter of

Thomas Hollway Thomas Tuke Hollway (2 October 1906 – 30 July 1971) was the 36th Premier of Victoria, and the first to be born in the 20th century. He held office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952. He was originally a member and the lea ...

, he ran as an

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candidate in 1952, but had returned to the Liberal Party by 1958. Schilling died in

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in 1979.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schilling, Roy 1896 births 1979 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians Politicians from Bendigo University of Melbourne alumni Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II Military personnel from Victoria (state)