Richard Couch

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 as Judge of the High Court of Bombay upon its establishment on 14 August 1862 and later became its Chief Justice of on 3 March 1866. He served for four years in that position, before being appointed Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, serving in that post from 26 April 1870 to 5 April 1875.

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