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 Matthew Raine FRS.[2] He was educated at Eton College, where he was a friend of Richard Porson,[3] and matriculated in 1783 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1787, and M.A. in 1790; he became a Fellow of Trinity in 1789. Admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1785, he was called to the bar in 1791.[1]
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 William Frend, being present on the occasion of the noted tea party with William Wordsworth on 27 February 1795.[6][7] In 1800 Matthew and Jonathan Raine were executors for John Warner, the radical Whig cleric and scholar.[8]
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 King's Counsel.[1] 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.[10][11] In 1823 he was appointed First Justice for the Counties of Anglesey, Carnarvon and Merioneth, a position abolished in 1830.[1] 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.[12] He voted against the Great Reform Bill, which would abolish the Newport constituency.[13][14]
Family
Price married Elizabeth Price on 24 June 1799 in Kensington.[15]
Notes
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- ↑ Kenneth R. Johnston, Philanthropy or Treason? Wordsworth as "Active Partisan", Studies in Romanticism Vol. 25, No. 3, Homage to Carl Woodring (Fall, 1986), pp. 371–409, at p. 379. Published by: Boston University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25600609
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