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Richard Couch (judge)

Sir Richard Couch
Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay
In office
1866–1870
Personal details
Born1817
England
Died1905 (aged 87–88)
London, England
Sir Richard Couch, uploaded from National Portrait Gallery, London under a Creative Commons licence.by Bassano Ltd half-plate glass negative, 1907NPG x30653

Sir Richard Couch (17 May 1817 – 28 November 1905) was an Anglo-Indian judge who served on the colonial courts of India and also on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire.

Couch was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay in 1866.[1] He served for four years in that position, before being appointed Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, serving in that post from 1870 to 1875.[2]

Upon his retirement from the Calcutta High Court, Couch was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1881.[3] He sat on numerous appeals from India and Canada.[4][5][6]

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Preceded by Chief Justice of Bengal
1870–1875
Succeeded by


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