Richard Youl (3 December 1821 – 6 August 1897) was an Australian coroner, surgeon, public servant and general practitioner.
He grew up and was educated in England, graduating from the University of St Andrews,[1] moving to Victoria when he returned to Australia.
In 1853 he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Melbourne Gaols and a magistrate and district coroner for Bourke, New South Wales.
He became Melbourne Coroner permanently in 1857 and lost office in 1878 due to Premier Graham Berry's purge of civil servants claiming being unable to pay them.
He was said to have been quite liberal for his time, being opposed to the death penalty and the internment of juvenile offenders and the insane with normal criminals.