Jonathan Raine
Jonathan Raine (1763–1831) was an English barrister, judge and politician.[1]
Early life
He was the son of Matthew Raine, a cleric and schoolmaster, and younger brother of
From 1793 for a decade, Raine was a London criminal lawyer at the Old Bailey.[4] He also became known as a special pleader, went the Northern Circuit, and gained a reputation for Latin verse.[5]
Associations
Raine was one of the circle of
Politician, lawyer and judge
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland met Raine through his legal work on the Northumberland estate, and supported him as a parliamentary candidate for St Ives in 1802.[5] At this point John Hammond, a Unitarian academic friend of Frend, hoped that Raine would prove a reformer of the "augean stable".[9] He went on to be MP for Wareham 1806–7, for Launceston in 1812, and for Newport (Cornwall), 1812 to 1831.[1]
In 1816 Raine became
Family
Raine married Elizabeth Price on 24 June 1799 in Kensington.[15]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e "Raine, Jonathan (RN782J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ John S. Watson (1861). The life of Richard Porson, professor of Greek in the university of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808: (Mit Porfon's Porträt.). Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. p. 429.
- ISBN 978-0-8078-2806-9.
- ^ a b "Raine, Jonathan (1763-1831), of Lincoln's Inn and 33 Bedford Row, Mdx., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-118-60492-2.
- JSTOR 25600609.
- ^ Eight Friends of the Great
- ISBN 0575006331.
- ^ "Newport 1790–1820, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- . p. 21.
- ^ "Stephenson, Rowland (1782-1856), of Marshalls, nr. Romford, Essex, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Newport 1820–1832, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ The Annual biography and obituary. 1832. p. 464.
- ^ "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica". 1881. p. 257. Retrieved 3 April 2015.