Richard Couch

Richard Couch
Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay
In office
1866–1870
Constituency Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Personal details
Born 1817
England
Died

1905 (aged 8788)


London, England

Sir Richard Couch (1817–1905) 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 High Court of Calcutta, serving in that post from 1870 to 1875.[2]

Upon his retirement from the High Court of Calcutta, 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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