Frank Edwards (Australian politician)
# Frank Edwards (Australian politician)

Frank Bathurst Edwards (6 September 1887 – 5 March 1983) was an Australian politician.

## Life and career

Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, he was educated at Hutchins School and read Law at the University of Tasmania. From 1909 to 1912 he was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford.

Edwards was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Independent member for Russell in 1921. He served until he was defeated in 1933; the following year he contested the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist candidate for Darwin and was elected. He remained in parliament until his resignation in 1940.

