Richard Clarke Sewell (1803 – 7 November 1864) was an English lawyer who later moved to Australia.
He served as senior dean of arts in 1838, as bursar 1840, and was vice-president and prælector of natural philosophy in 1843.
He was awarded the Newdigate prize in 1825 for an English poem on "The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli".
[1] On 25 June 1830 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, became known as a special pleader, and took business on the western circuit and at the Hampshire sessions.
"Vindiciæ Ecclesiasticæ, or a Legal and Historical Argument against the Abolition of the Bishops' Courts in Cases of Correction, as proposed by the Church Discipline Act," 1839.
"Sacro-Politica: the Rights of the Anglican Church examined with, and tested by, the Laws of England and the Principles of the British Constitution," 1848.
"The Speech of R. C. Sewell in defence of G. Chamberlain and W. Armstrong, charged with intent to murder W. Green," Melbourne, 1859.
For the English Historical Society Sewell edited "Gesta Stephani," 1846, and contributed to the Field "The Papers of a Hampshire Fisherman."