Jonathan Raine (1763–1831) was an English barrister, judge and politician.

Early life

He was the son of Matthew Raine, a cleric and schoolmaster, and younger brother of

Matthew Raine Matthew Raine (1760–1811) was an English schoolmaster and cleric. Life He was born on 20 May 1760 at Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury, Gilling in the North Riding of Yorkshire; his father Matthew Raine was vicar of St. John the Baptist's Chu ...

FRS. He was educated at

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, where he was a friend of Richard Porson, and matriculated in 1783 at

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, graduating B.A. in 1787, and M.A. in 1790; he became a Fellow of Trinity in 1789. Admitted to

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in 1785, he was

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in 1791. From 1793 for a decade, Raine was a London criminal lawyer at the

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. He also became known as a

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, went the Northern Circuit, and gained a reputation for Latin verse.

Associations

Raine was one of the circle of William Frend, being present on the occasion of the noted tea party with

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on 27 February 1795. In 1800 Matthew and Jonathan Raine were executors for John Warner, the radical Whig cleric and scholar.

Politician, lawyer and judge

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met Raine through his legal work on the Northumberland estate, and supported him as a parliamentary candidate for in 1802. At this point John Hammond, a Unitarian academic friend of Frend, hoped that Raine would prove a reformer of the "augean stable". He went on to be MP for 1806–7, for in 1812, and for , 1812 to 1831. In 1816 Raine became

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. In 1818 his seat at Newport, while "owned" by the 3rd Duke of Northumberland, was actually contested by candidates put up by Thomas John Phillipps, who also had property there. In 1823 he was appointed First Justice for the Counties of Anglesey, Carnarvon and Merioneth, a position abolished in 1830. As a Welsh judge, he stood down for Newport in order to contest the seat again: he was re-elected at the by-election, after Rowland Stephenson opposed him. He voted against the

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, which would abolish the Newport constituency.

Family

Raine married Elizabeth Price on 24 June 1799 in Kensington.

Notes

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