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Thomas
Raikes Raikes may refer to:
Members of the prominent English family:
* Robert Raikes the Elder (1690-1757), British printer and newspaper proprietor
* Robert Raikes (1736-1811), English promoter of Sunday Schools and philanthropist, eldest son of the ab ...
("the Elder") (28 March 1741 – 29 December 1813) was a British merchant particularly trading from London with Russia, a banker and newspaper proprietor. Notably, he was
Governor of the Bank of England
The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent grooming their successor. The governor of the Ba ...
during the 1797 currency crisis, when the Bank was prohibited by the British Government from paying out in gold.
Biography
Raikes Raikes may refer to:
Members of the prominent English family:
* Robert Raikes the Elder (1690-1757), British printer and newspaper proprietor
* Robert Raikes (1736-1811), English promoter of Sunday Schools and philanthropist, eldest son of the ab ...
was born at
Gloucester
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in 1741, third son of
Robert Raikes the Elder
Robert Raikes the Elder (baptised 22 April 1690 – 7 September 1757) was a British printer and newspaper proprietor. He is noted as a pioneer of the press who was instrumental in bringing printing out of London and to the provinces.
Biograp ...
and Mary Drew. His brothers included
Robert Raikes
Robert Raikes ("the Younger") (14 September 1736 – 5 April 1811) was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman. He was educated at The Crypt School Gloucester. He was noted for his promotion of Sunday schools.
Family
Raikes was born at ...
, the founder and promoter of
Sunday school
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Su ...
s, and William Raikes, a director of the
South Sea Company
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.
Raikes Raikes may refer to:
Members of the prominent English family:
* Robert Raikes the Elder (1690-1757), British printer and newspaper proprietor
* Robert Raikes (1736-1811), English promoter of Sunday Schools and philanthropist, eldest son of the ab ...
was Governor of the
Bank of England
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from 1797 to 1799, during the crisis of 1797 when
war
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had so diminished
gold reserves
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that the
Government
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prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold and ordered the use of
banknote
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s instead.
Thomas
Raikes Raikes may refer to:
Members of the prominent English family:
* Robert Raikes the Elder (1690-1757), British printer and newspaper proprietor
* Robert Raikes (1736-1811), English promoter of Sunday Schools and philanthropist, eldest son of the ab ...
was a personal friend of Prime Minister
William Pitt the Younger
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, and of
William Wilberforce
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, the leader of the campaign against the
slave trade
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.
Raikes Raikes may refer to:
Members of the prominent English family:
* Robert Raikes the Elder (1690-1757), British printer and newspaper proprietor
* Robert Raikes (1736-1811), English promoter of Sunday Schools and philanthropist, eldest son of the ab ...
died at Stanwell House, Middlesex 29 December 1813.
Family
On 8 December 1774 at St George's,
Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
, London,
Raikes Raikes may refer to:
Members of the prominent English family:
* Robert Raikes the Elder (1690-1757), British printer and newspaper proprietor
* Robert Raikes (1736-1811), English promoter of Sunday Schools and philanthropist, eldest son of the ab ...
married Charlotte, daughter of Henry Finch, and granddaughter of
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea, PC (2 July 16471 January 1730) was an English Tory statesman who supported the Hanoverian Succession in 1714.
Origins
He was born on 2 July 1647, the son of Heneage Finch, 1st Ea ...
.
[Pages 5 and 13 of ''Pedigree of Raikes'' published 1930 by Phillimore, London] With Charlotte he had four sons and five daughters. Their eldest son
Thomas
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became a noted London diarist; another son,
Henry
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, became a churchman, eventually Chancellor of the
Diocese of Chester
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. One of their daughters, Georgiana (d. 2 December 1861), married
Lord William FitzRoy
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Famil ...
.
References
;Notes
;Bibliography
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Frank Booth ''Robert Raikes of Gloucester'' published 1980.
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John Clapham '' History of the Bank of England''
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Alfred Gregory
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, ''Robert Raikes Journalist & Philanthropist'' published by Hodder and Stoughton 1880
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J M Harris ''Robert Raikes, the man and his works.''
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Kent's Directory for the Year 1794. Cities of London and Westminster, & Borough of Southwark.
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Duncan Raikes (compiled by), ''Pedigree of Raikes'' published 1980 by Phillimore based on the 1930 "privately printed" edition also published by Phillimore.
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Senate House Library,
University of London
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: Raikes, Thomas : An account book covering the period 31 March 1802 – 31 October 1808.
1741 births
1813 deaths
English bankers
People from Gloucester
Governors of the Bank of England
Deputy Governors of the Bank of England
Raikes family
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