Henry Raikes

Vicar Henry Raikes (1782-1854) was Chancellor of the diocese of Chester.He was the son of Thomas Raikes, a London banker and merchant, and Charlotte Finch, daughter of Henry Finch, Earl of Winchelsea.

One of his three brothers was Thomas Raikes (the younger) (1777-1848), a London banker and merchant who later became a famous diarist and a dandy traveller on the Continent (mostly in France).One of his five sisters, Georgina Raikes, married Lord William Fitzroy, Admiral (1782-1857) on 9 of August 1816.

Henry Raikes was the father of Henry Cecil Raikes (1838 - 1891), a British Conservative politician and one of the earliest British politicians to have had their voice recorded. George Edward Gouraud recorded him on behalf of Thomas Edison on the evening of October 5, 1888. [http://cylindersontheweb.angelcities.com/rare_recordings.htm] .

Some of his archives, like his "Diary of a tour of Greece" in the years 1805 ha 1806 or "Letters to William Ewart Gladstone and others" , 1807-1854 may be found in Manuscript Collections of some places like the British Library.

=Archives of Vicar Henry Raikes, Chancellor of the diocese of Chester=Scope corresp (180 items)Repository : Manchester University: John Rylands Library

Record Reference : Eng MS 1121 Other reference see HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987. Scope 1805-1806: Diary of a tour of GreeceRepository: Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives

Other reference see Accessions to repositories 1963. Scope 1807-1854: letters to William Ewart Gladstone and othersRepository : British Library, Manuscript Collections

Other reference see Index of MSS, VIII, 1985.

=External links=
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp14385&role=art&rNo=1 Portrait of Henry Raikes by John Romney lithograph]
*G. C. Boase, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23014 ‘Raikes, Henry (1782–1854)’] , rev. Simon Harrison, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004
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