Richard Dore (1749–1800) was an attorney, deputy judge advocate and secretary to the governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia in the late 18th century.
On 12 April 1782, he married Maria Nassau de Zuylestein, daughter of the fourth Earl of Rochford William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein of St Osyth Priory Essex, at St Marylebone.
On 9 September 1797 he was commissioned as deputy judge advocate of the colony of New South Wales, which had been founded just nine years previously.
The judge advocate presided with four military officers in the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction which decided all capital offences in the colony.
In the case of Catherine Evans, which was heard on 5 January 1799, he sentenced her to wearing an iron collar for one month and sweeping out the prisons.
In sentencing her, Dore said: "The Magistrates cannot see without regret the numerous evils likely to result from the excess occasioned by intoxication which is now grown so prevalent and to so extreme a degree that it becomes their duty to make some public examples in order the check the enormities committed by abandoned women whilst in a state of drunkenness, and they strictly enjoin the Gaoler and all others under him to be particularly attentive to the suppression of this dangerous depravity.
"[5] Historian Frank Clarke notes that Dore ordered punishments of 100 to 500 lashes to nine Irish convicts suspected of being in an attempt at insurrection.
[6] Clarke states that Dore ordered the lashes notwithstanding that the convicts had not been found guilty of any crime.
Lastly, he suffered from the lack of adequate legal resources, an affliction that was to continue to affect the colony even to the time of Chief Justice Frederick Matthew Darley in the late 19th century.
According to Donovan Clarke, Robinson was soon to run the office of deputy judge advocate for Dore's successor.
It is not clear whether previous judge advocates did collect a part of those fees in New South Wales.
Historian K G Allars notes that Hunter thought that the charges made by Dore for the issuing of writs and licences were excessive.
This was in contrast to Collins and Richard Atkins who favoured farmers and settlers by providing time for debts to paid.