Sir Matthew Richard Sausse or Sause (1809 – 5 November 1867) was an Irish barrister who was the last Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bombay and the first Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
[1] Sausse was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary into a Roman Catholic family.
His brother Sir Richard Frederick (known in Spanish as Ricardo Federico de La Saussaye y Duffey) was governor of Cartagena, Spain.
[3] He first worked as the Secretary and Solicitor in the Commission to Enquire into the state of the Municipal Corporation of England.
[8] He died of gastric fever at Killarney House, seat of Lord Castlerosse.