Arthur Octavius Walker

Arthur Octavius Edwards (1876–1960) was an English builder, property developer and hotel manager best known for building the Grosvenor House Hotel in London in the 1920s.

Edwards was born in 1876 in Ripley, Derbyshire, the son of Edgar James and Ellen Edwards; his father was a civil engineer. He first worked in a drawing office in Westminster before moving to Ceylon to work on building Railways. On his turn to England he was involved in the re-building of the Savoy Hotel.

He was not a pilot but had an interest in aviation, in 1934 he purchased a de Havilland DH.88 Comet race to compete in the MacRobertson Air Race.

Edwards died in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1960, aged 84.