Henry Beresford Garrett (c. 1818 – 3 September 1885) was a habitual criminal who served prison sentences in England, Tasmania, Victoria and New Zealand.

[1] In January 1842 Henry Rouse was tried in the county of Leicester for assaulting a gamekeeper, and received a sentence of three months' imprisonment "and sureties".

A decade after he had been transported to Australia the local newspaper claimed that “several parties have dreaded the return of this man, who would endanger both their lives and property”.

[1] By mid-1848 he was confined at Cascades, on the outskirts of Hobart Town, probably at the Probation station where, amongst other activities, timber was being milled (some of it for conveyance to England).

[9] By February 1849 Rouse, probably in his capacity as a cooper, was assigned to John Johnson at the New Wharf, the waterfront precinct of Hobart Town.

In October an extra eighteen months were added to his sentence and he was sent to the Darlington Probation Station on Maria Island, off the east coast of Tasmania.

However, on July 18 he was discharged and returned to Government control when he was discovered “out after hours” and being suspected of involvement in a robbery at Johnston's stores.

[9] In October 1851, amongst the items advertised as lost property at the Central Police Office (“a large proportion taken from prisoners of the Crown”), was a silver watch by Breguet which had been recovered from “Henry Rouse, a pass-holder”.

[13] By the early 1850s Henry Rouse had managed to cross Bass Strait and was living in the Colony of Victoria, initially working as a cooper in Geelong.

Carrying revolvers without powder or shot, but with paper in the muzzles and new caps to appear as if they were loaded, the four men hid themselves in the bush at the back of the bank.

After collecting an amount of money and gold from the bank, the four separated, leaving the scene by different routes and meeting later on in Garrett's tent.

The following day the Garrett sold to Messrs. Samuels and Montague, bullion dealers, Cornhill, 499 ounces of gold dust for £1,975 claiming he struck it rich on the Bendigo goldfields.

Garrett and several companions carried out highway robbery of fifteen men, they stole gold and property worth some £400 at the foot of the Maungatua range, on the track between Gabriels Gully and Dunedin.

At the time of Revingstone's first robbery in June 1850[16][17] Henry Rouse was either incarcerated on Maria Island or had been assigned to Thomas Jennings in Hobart Town.