Tom Edmunds

Cyril Thomas Edmunds AM (24 October 1925 – 2 February 2003) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Essendon to plumber Cyril Edmunds and Gertrude Victoria Jeffreys.

He attended local state schools and served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1943 to 1945, as a coxswain in the South Pacific Air Sea Rescue Service.

On 14 June 1952 he married Vivienne Amy Ballantine; they had three children.

When Labor won government in 1982 he was elected Speaker, serving until his retirement from politics in 1988.