Edmond Davall (25 March 1793 - 18 December 1860) was a Swiss forester and politician.
Biography Davall was born on 25 March 1793 in Orbe, Vaud, the son of Edmund Davall, an English-born Swiss botanist, and Henriette Crinsoz de Cottens. Davall studied forestry in Germany, graduating in 1816. He married Louise de Joffrey in 1820. Davall distinguished himself as a planner, working in Orbe, Lausanne and Moudon, and played a decisive role in the drafting of Vaud's Forestry Law of 1835.
Davall placed professionals in charge of the districts and published several articles. He was a founding member of the Vaudois Society of Foresters, vice-president of the cantonal forestry commission, and served as a Liberal member of the Grand Council of Vaud from 1843 to 1845. Davall was also a judge at the Vevey district court and a colonel of the Swiss Army artillery. He died on 18 December 1860 in Lausanne, aged 67.
References
Further reading Cédric ROSSIER, mémoire de licence de l'Université de Lausanne, septembre 2003. "Edmond Davall : approche biographique de l’homme et du forestier", Cédric ROSSIER, in Revue historique vaudoise, 2005. J. Barbey, «Les forestiers D.», in Journal forestier suisse, 1953, 391–395.