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

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politician. He was born at Guntawang near

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to pastoralist Edwin Rouse and Hannah Hipkins. He was educated at

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and subsequently managed his father's 4,000-acre property on the

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, 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

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, serving as mayor in 1876 and from 1899 to 1903. In 1876 he was elected to the

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for

, but he was defeated in 1877. He won the 1879 by-election by a single vote, but this result was overturned by the Committee of Elections and Qualifications. No reasons were published however

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stated that it appeared that the majority of Mr Rouse was created by illegal voting. Rouse died at Guntawang in 1903. Rouse was the grandson of Richard Rouse, a Colonial public servant and early settler.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rouse, Richard 1842 births 1903 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians