Henry Walters (public servant)

Henry Latimer Walters ISO (24 January 1868 – 17 March 1929) was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as head of the Department of Works and Railways.

Walters was born in Newcastle, New South Wales on 24 January 1868.

[1] Shortly after Federation,[2] in 1902,[3] he joined the Commonwealth Public Service as an accountant.

[4] Between 1926 and his death in 1929, Walters was Secretary of the Department of Works and Railways.

[5] Walters died at his home on Tennyson Street in St Kilda, Melbourne on 17 March 1929 after 18 months of illness.