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Raikes Currie
Member of Parliament
for Northampton
In office
24 July 1837 – 27 March 1857
Preceded byCharles Ross
Succeeded byCharles Gilpin
Personal details
Born(1801-04-15)15 April 1801
Died16 October 1881(1881-10-16) (aged 80)
ChildrenGeorge Wodehouse Currie
Bertram Wodehouse Currie
Maynard Wodehouse Currie
Philip Wodehouse Currie

Raikes Currie (15 April 1801 – 16 October 1881) was Member of Parliament (MP) for Northampton from 1837 to 1857. He was a partner of the bank Curries & Co., which became part of Glyn, Mills & Co. in 1864, along with his father, Isaac Currie, in Cornhill, City of London, and had several interests in the newly developing colony of South Australia.[1] He restored Minley Manor and made substantial improvements to the estate, work which was continued by his son and grandson.

The family bank was connected to slavery in the British West Indies and contributed some £9,000 (possibly as much as £50,000) to the creation of South Australia in 1836.[2]

  1. ^ Curries & Co, London, 1773-1864
  2. ^ Coventry, C.J. (2019). "Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia". Before/Now. 1 (1). doi:10.17613/d8ht-p058.

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Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery

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