Walter Edmunds

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

He attended Lyndhurst College and Fort Street Training School before becoming a teacher at Wollongong.

On 9 February 1897 he married Monica Victoria May McGrath, with whom he had six children.

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.

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