{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} '''Reginald Ernest Roy Schilling''' (30 August 1896 – 7 May 1979) was an Australian politician.
He was born in [[Bendigo, Victoria|Bendigo]] 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 [[Melbourne University]] 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 [[World War II]] he served in the [[Royal Australian Air Force]], and after the war he returned to university, qualifying for his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] and [[Bachelor of Law|LLB]]. In 1947 he was elected to the [[Victorian Legislative Assembly]] as the [[Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division)|Liberal]] member for [[Electoral district of Albert Park|Albert Park]], but he was defeated in 1950. A supporter of [[Thomas Hollway]], he ran as an [[Electoral Reform League]] candidate in 1952, but had returned to the Liberal Party by 1958. Schilling died in [[Elsternwick, Victoria|Elsternwick]] in 1979.<ref name=vic>{{cite web | last = Parliament of Victoria | author-link = Parliament of Victoria | title = Schilling, Roy | work = re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851 | publisher = Parliament of Victoria | date = 2001 | url = http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1421 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060823033211/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1421 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 23 August 2006 | access-date = 27 December 2015}}</ref>
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