Robert Raikes 1765-1837

Robert Raikes Esq. (1765 – 1837), was an English banker, based in Kingston upon Hull.

He lived at Welton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire and then at Treberfydd, Breconshire, Wales and he married Anne Williamson.

He built a beautiful Georgian mausoleum for himself and his family in 1818.

It is a fine classical building, cylindrical in form, with crisply cut detail. There are some fifty Georgian mausolea in England the majority of which are relatively plain rectangular structures with low-pitched roofs and pediments. The number of those which imitate the more unusual forms of ancient Roman tombs is far smaller.

The Raikes mausoleum is one such and, for this reason, of particular interest. His son, Robert Raikes, married Eleanor Catherine Puget.