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| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]<br />
| name = Sir Richard Couch<br />
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| caption = Sir Richard Couch, uploaded from National Portrait Gallery, London<br />
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| office = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Calcutta High Court|2nd Chief Justice]] of [[Calcutta High Court]]<br />
| term_start = 26 April 1870<br />
| term_end = 5 April 1875<br />
| predecessor = [[Barnes Peacock]]<br />
| successor = [[Richard Garth]]<br />
| appointer = [[Queen Victoria]]<br />
| office1 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Bombay High Court|2nd Chief Justice]] of [[Bombay High Court]]<br />
| term_start1 = 3 March 1866<br />
| term_end1 = 25 April 1870<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Matthew Richard Sausse]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Michael Roberts Westropp]]<br />
| appointer1 = [[Queen Victoria]]<br />
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| birth_place = [[England]]<br />
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| death_place = [[London]], England<br />
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'''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]].<br />
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Couch was appointed Chief Justice of the [[Bombay High Court|High Court of Bombay]]<ref>[http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?auth=amdldGlkPTEmcGFnZW5vPTE= High Court of Bombay: Hon'ble Former Chief Justices]</ref> on 3 March 1866.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1866-03-06 |title=London Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23080/page/1647 |page=1647 |issue=23080}}</ref> He served for four years in that position, before being appointed Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/pdf_files/former_chief_justice.pdf |title=High Court of Calcutta: Former Chief Justices |access-date=5 January 2013 |archive-date=22 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822044941/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/pdf_files/former_chief_justice.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> serving in that post from 26 April 1870 to 5 April 1875.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pg.15 |url=https://www.wbja.nic.in/wbja_adm/files/The%20High%20Court%20at%20Calcutta%20150%20Years%20-%20An%20Overview.pdf}}</ref><br />
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Upon his retirement from the Calcutta High Court, Couch was appointed to the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]] in 1881.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/24927/pages/339/page.pdf ''London Gazette'', 25 January 1881, p. 339.]</ref> He sat on numerous appeals from India and Canada.<ref>[[List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1880–1889]]</ref><ref>[[List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1890–1899]]</ref><ref>[[List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1900–1909]]</ref><br />
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