Walter Edmunds (6 January 1856 – 15 August 1932) was an Australian judge and politician.
Walter Edmunds was born atMaitland to saddler John Edmunds and Rosina Smith. He attended Lyndhurst College and Fort Street Training School before becoming a teacher atWollongong. He moved back toSydney to study at theUniversity of Sydney, gaining aMaster of Arts in 1879 and aBachelor of Law in 1881. He was called to the bar in 1882. In 1889 he was elected to theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly as aProtectionist member forSouth Sydney,[1] 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 theDistrict Court, and in 1914 was appointed a judge of theCourt of Industrial Arbitration. In 1920 he was briefly president of the Board of Trade, and from 1920 to 1926 was senior judge on theIndustrial Court.[2] In 1927 he was appointed to conduct aRoyal Commission into allegations concerning the Industrial Commissioner,Albert Piddington, along with Judge Walter Bevan andEdward LoxtonKC.[3]
Edmunds died atStrathfield in 1932.[4][5]
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