Lives in Cricket No 46 - George Raikes

108 The Rector of Bergh Apton - The End of a Muscular Christian The hall at Holverston, the only feature of note in that parish during Raikes’ time as vicar. The rectory at Bergh Apton, where George and Maud Raikes lived while he was the vicar of that parish. Thursby’s father, another William. The value was given as £5,000 (with a net income of £582) and the transfer was described as being “subject to the incumbency of Thursby’s son, the Rev William Ford Thursby”. Between 1873 and 1920 the Thursby family could be said to have been self-employed, both owning the living of Bergh Apton and drawing income from it.