Robert Walsh, QC (October 1824 – 24 August 1899) was an Australian lawyer and politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Attorney-General of Victoria.
[2] Robert was educated at Chaill's Blackrock School and Trinity College Dublin, where he took his degree in 1846, with a moderatorship in logic and ethics.
[2] In April 1871 he entered the Legislative Assembly for Ballarat East,[1] and was Attorney-General in the Charles Gavan Duffy Ministry from July of that year till June 1872.
[2] In December 1886 he was appointed Crown Prosecutor for the metropolitan district, and in 1892 conducted the case for the prosecution against the murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming.
[2] Walsh was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1890, he died in St Kilda, Victoria on 24 August 1899,[1] survived by his wife and a large family.