William Ardagh Gardner Walter

William Ardagh Gardner Walter (13 August 1860 – 10 March 1940) was magistrate of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

[1][2] At Oxford he shone at Rugby football, cycling[3] and as a rower in the Eight for Exeter College Boat Club.

[4][5] In 1885 William migrated to Western Australia where initially he bought a farm at Tanjanerup near Nannup, which he sold a few years later in order to enter government service in 1891.

[2] In March 1918 he fined the leader of the parliamentary opposition and future Western Australian Premier Philip Collier £25 for declarations 'likely to cause disaffection' during the conscription plebiscite.

Later on he also coached women scullers on the Swan River and was a member of the Western Australian Turf Club.