William Brunton (1 February 1867 – 13 April 1938) was a businessman and Mayor of Melbourne, Australia.
Around 1887 he joined Currie & Richards, sheet metal fabricators, of which his uncle was a partner.
[1] He was elected to the Melbourne City Council in 1913 and became mayor in 1923, resigning in 1926, in which year he was knighted in recognition of his charity work while in office.
[1] Brunton married Jessie Wray of Carlton on 14 February 1894; she died in 1927, deeply mourned as a humanitarian and philanthropist.
[2] On 16 November 1932 he married Christine Martha McFadden.