Walter Edmunds

Walter Edmunds was an Australian judge and politician.

Biography

Walter Edmunds was born at Maitland, [New South Wales|Maitland] to saddler John Edmunds and Rosina Smith. He attended Lyndhurst College and Fort Street Training School before becoming a teacher at Wollongong. He moved back to Sydney to study at the University of Sydney, gaining a Master of Arts in 1879 and a Bachelor of Law in 1881. He was called to the bar in 1882. In 1889 he was elected to the New [South Wales Legislative Assembly] as a Protectionist 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 of New South Wales|District Court], and in 1914 was appointed a judge of the Court of [Industrial Arbitration (New South Wales)|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 Industrial Court. In 1927 he was appointed to conduct a List of [New South Wales royal commissions|Royal Commission] into allegations concerning the Industrial Commissioner, Albert Piddington, along with Judge Walter Bevan and Edward Loxton KC.
Edmunds died at Strathfield in 1932.