Editing Robert Raikes (section)

==Family==
Raikes was born at [[Ladybellegate House]], [[Gloucester]], in 1736,<ref>Heighway, Carolyn. ''Gloucester: a history and guide.'' Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1985, p. 135. {{ISBN|0-86299-256-7}}</ref> the eldest child of Mary Drew and [[Robert Raikes the Elder|Robert Raikes]], a newspaper publisher.  He was baptised on 24 September 1736 at [[St Mary de Crypt Church]] in Gloucester. On 23 December 1767 he married Anne Trigge, with whom he had three sons and seven daughters: their oldest son, the Rev. Robert Napier Raikes, was the father of General [[General Robert Napier Raikes (Indian Army)|Robert Napier Raikes]] of the [[Indian Army]], while another son, William Henley Raikes, was a colonel in the [[Coldstream Guards]] and fought for the British in the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Raikes's great-granddaughter [[Alice Elgar|Caroline Alice Roberts]] (1848–1920) was a fiction writer who married the composer Sir [[Edward Elgar]].