Robert Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke (born 25 March 1937) is a British peer who has lived much of his life in Australia, where he became a sheep farmer of some 15,000 acres in southern Victoria.
[2] His reason for settling in Victoria may have been that his grandfather, George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, had been Governor of the state.
During the trial, the new earl from Australia featured in the tabloid press, wearing a bush hat and lacing his comments with such expressions as "fair dinkum".
But his plans for a new country house were turned down, so Stradbroke set up home in a tent, and then later in a two-bedroom cottage.
They were divorced in 1976, having had seven children:[1] In 1977, he married secondly Roseanna Mary Blanche Reitman, a daughter of Francis Reitman and Susan Diana Mary Vernon, and they had eight children:[1] Stradbroke had a younger brother who took up a career in the British Army and became Lieutenant General Sir William Rous, regimental colonel of the Coldstream Guards.