Richard Roberts (Australian politician)

Richard Hutchinson Roberts (10 July 1835 – 17 June 1903) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Sydney to businessman Joseph Roberts and Martha Anne Hutchinson. He came from a Camden settler family and owned Roberton Park near Glenquarry. On 22 September 1853 he married Susanna Neich, with whom he had nine children; a second marriage on 11 January 1900 was to Leila Helen Riach. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Camden, but he did not re-contest in 1869. In 1882 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he remained until his death at Roberton Park in 1903.[1]