Background
He was the son of Thomas Raikes, a London banker and merchant, and Charlotte Finch, daughter of Henry Finch, Earl of Winchelsea.
He was the son of Thomas Raikes, a London banker and merchant, and Charlotte Finch, daughter of Henry Finch, Earl of Winchelsea.
Henry Raikes was the grandfather 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 5 October 1888.
Archives of Vicar Henry Raikes, Chancellor of the diocese of Chester: correspondence (180 items).
Repository: Manchester University, John Rylands Library Record Reference: Engineer Mississippi 1121.
Other reference see HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987. Diary of a tour of Greece in the years 1805 & 1806.
Repository: Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives. Other reference see Accessions to repositories 1963.
Letters to William Ewart Gladstone and others, 1807-1854.
Repository: British Library, Manuscript Collections. Other reference see Index of Master in Social Service, VIII, 1985.