Bruce Walker (politician, born 1897)
Australian politician
(Ronald) Bruce Walker (7 December 1897 – 1981) was an Australian politician.
Early life
He was born at Windsor, to Lucinda Isabel Rowthorn and (Robert) Bruce Walker, who was also a politician. Ronald attended Sydney Grammar School and was admitted as a solicitor in 1925. On 19 December 1923 he married Muriel Smith, with whom he had a son. He joined the family law firm, William Walker & Son, becoming a senior partner in 1932.
Member of parliament
In 1932 he succeeded his father in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member for Hawkesbury. He was re-elected in 1935, and 1938, serving until 1941.
Conspiracy conviction
In August 1939 he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud members of the public in connection with the Scottish Loan and Finance Company of which he was a director. After a 36-day hearing in the Supreme Court in 1941, in which Walker addressed the jury for 9 hours, Walker and one of his co-accused, solicitor Albert Levitus, were convicted. Justice Sir Percival Halse Rogers sentenced Walker to three years imprisonment and Levitus to five years imprisonment.
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