Sir George Edward Rich KCMG QC (3 May 1863 – 14 May 1956) was an Australian lawyer and judge who served on the High Court of Australia from 1913 to 1950.

"[3] In 1915, Rich was appointed by the Fisher government to lead the Royal Commission on Liverpool Military Camp, New South Wales.

He was tasked with inquiring into the administration of an Australian Army training camp in Liverpool, New South Wales, which Richard Orchard had alleged was being seriously mismanaged.

His report, handed down a month after he was appointed, found that the camp subjected soldiers to "unnecessary privations and hardships" that were "not only cruel, but calculated to endanger their lives".

It was the first of only two occasions on which a sitting High Court judge has been appointed to a Royal Commission – the other being Samuel Griffith's 1918 inquiry into recruitment levels.

As he stated in a letter to his colleague Edmund Barton, Rich was initially reluctant to take up the appointment, but thought the "special circumstances" of the war obligated him to accept.

[4] Prime Minister Billy Hughes invited Rich to join the official Australian delegation to the Third Assembly of the League of Nations, held in 1922 in Geneva, Switzerland.

He gave speeches in New York City, Buffalo, and Chicago, promoting the League's activities and criticising the U.S. for refusing to join.

An obituary in the Australian Law Journal described Rich as: "...patient, helpful to counsel, wise in his sense of judgment and he had a rare but unobtrusive humour.

His contribution as a Justice of the High Court to constitutional problems is by no means as insignificant as the brevity of many of his judgments might suggest, for he had the facility for expressing complex propositions in clear and succinct terms.