User:Vernon39/ Edward Bassett Reynolds

 DRAFT ARTICLE on Edward Bassett Reynolds (1864-1934) was an editor of the Quaker weekly magazine. The Friend from 1912 to 1931.

He was the oldest son of Bassett Reynolds and Julia his wife, born Miles. He attended Ackworth School, leaving in 1874.

He was assistant editor to Henry Stanley Newman from the date Newman was appointed in 1892 until Newman's death in 1912, when he succeeded him.

He served as editor during the Great War, when the Religious Society of Friends defied the Government's censorship laws. The whole period of his work for The Friend was one of great change for the Religious Society of Friends in the UK.

Edward married Anna Clark Eddington about 1904. They had two daughters. Anna died in 1944

He died ??? 1934, having retired from The Friend in 1931, after 39 years of service.