Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and teacher. Alternative signature: A. H. Raikes. Educated at Queen’s College, Oxford. Headmaster of Old College, Windermere. Married Minnie Aubrey Wise on 15 April 1886. Author identified from Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Raikes’ An Old Love-Song, published on 16 March 1895, lists their address as The Old College, Windermere (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, sixth edition, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1910, p. 1333; Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, vols. 3-4, p. 1171. (AC, CC)