Richard Rouse (politician)

Richard Rouse (2 January 1842 – 2 March 1903) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Guntawang near Mudgee to pastoralist Edwin Rouse and Hannah Hipkins. He was educated at Parramatta and subsequently managed his father's 4,000-acre property on the Cudgegong River, which he inherited in 1862. On 25 July 1865 he married Charlotte Emily Barnard, with whom he had four children. He was an alderman at Gulgong, serving as mayor in 1876 and from 1899 to 1903. In 1876 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Mudgee, but he was defeated in 1877. He won a by-election in 1879 by a single vote, but this result was overturned. Rouse died at Gentawang in 1903.