Background
He was born at Guntawang near Mudgee to pastoralist Edwin Rouse and Hannah Hipkins.
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Richard Rouse
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He was educated at Parramatta and subsequently managed his father"s 4,000-acre property on the Cudgegong River, which he inherited in 1862.
Career
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. Rouse died at Gentawang in 1903.
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Australian