COLDHAM, WALTER TIMON (1860-1908), barrister and sportsman, was born on 19
November 1860 at Grassdale near Branxholme, Victoria, third son of John Coldham,
an Anglican minister from Norfolk, England, and his wife Josephine, née Lane, of
County Cork, Ireland. His father had migrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1839 and
later turned to squatting in Victoria's Western District. Coldham was educated at
Hamilton College and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, where he excelled
at sport and was dux in 1879. He entered Trinity College, University of Melbourne,
in 1880; graduating LL.B. in 1884 he was admitted to the Bar that year. On 27
November 1885 he married Edith Lucy, daughter of J. D. Pinnock, and established a
large home in Balaclava Road, St Kilda.
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