Walter Bolitho Grose (18 May 1862 – 7 April 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born at

Creswick Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 122 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2016 census, Creswick had a populatio ...

to Thomas Bolitho Grose and Charlotte Robins. After attending local private schools he became a printer with the ''Creswick Advertiser'', of which he ultimately became manager and editor. He married Bessie Jane Jeffery, with whom he had ten children. He served as Mayor of Creswick from 1893 to 1894. In 1894 he was elected to the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

as the member for

, serving until 1904. Grose died in Creswick in 1940.

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1862 births 1940 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Mayors of places in Victoria (state) Australian editors People from Creswick, Victoria People from the Colony of Victoria {{Australia-politician-stub