Walter Harry Wadhams

Chairman of Turton Urban District Council: 1931-34 (Independent)

Born: Northampton, Northamptonshire 1873

Died: Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, Wales December 1954

Schoolteacher.

Governor of Edgworth Children's Homes at Crowthorn, Edgworth, Turton for 35 years until his retirement in 1935.

Son of Thomas Wadhams, a police inspector in Northampton.

Chairman of the Health Committee.

Bolton County Magistrate and Chairman of the Juvenile Panel.

His wife, Charlotte, was Matron at Crowthorn.