Walter Edmunds (6 January 1856 – 15 August 1932) was an Australian judge and politician.

Biography

Walter Edmunds was born at

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to saddler John Edmunds and Rosina Smith. He attended Lyndhurst College and Fort Street Training School before becoming a teacher at

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. He moved back to

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to study at the

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, gaining a

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in 1879 and a

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in 1881. He was called to the bar in 1882. In 1889 he was elected to the

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as a

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member for South Sydney, serving a single term. On 9 February 1897 he married Monica Victoria May McGrath, with whom he had six children. In 1911 he became a judge on the District Court, and in 1914 was appointed a judge of the Court of Industrial Arbitration. In 1920 he was briefly president of the Board of Trade, and from 1920 to 1926 was senior judge on the

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. In 1927 he was appointed to conduct a Royal Commission into allegations concerning the Industrial Commissioner,

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, along with Judge Walter Bevan and

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KC. Edmunds died at

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in 1932.

References

1856 births 1932 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians Judges of the District Court of NSW 20th-century Australian judges {{australia-law-bio-stub