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Walter Edmunds

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Judge Walter Edmunds during the Royal Commission into AB Piddington Sydney 1927

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

Biography

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Walter Edmunds was born at 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,[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 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 Industrial Court.[2] In 1927 he was appointed to conduct a Royal Commission into allegations concerning the Industrial Commissioner, Albert Piddington, along with Judge Walter Bevan and Edward Loxton KC.[3]

Edmunds died at Strathfield in 1932.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "South Sydney Electorate". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 1889. p. 8. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  2. ^ Shields, John (2003). "Ch 5 Walter Edmunds (1920-1926)". In Patmore, Greg (ed.). Laying the Foundations of Industrial Justice: The Presidents of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW, 1902-1998. Federation Press. ISBN 9781862874633.
  3. ^ "Royal Commission completely exonerates Mr. Piddington". The Daily Telegraph. 6 October 1927. p. 12. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via Trove.
  4. ^ Minchin, E J. "Edmunds, Walter (1856–1932)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
  5. ^ "Mr Walter Edmunds (1856-1932)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

 

New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member for South Sydney
1889–1891
With: James Martin
James Toohey
William Traill
Succeeded by