Richard Raby

Richard Raby was an English writer who lived from 1816 to 1881. Reliable library and authority records identify him as a writer, and surviving editions of his work show that he published Pope Adrian IV: An Historical Sketch as well as Select Readings in English Prose and Verse.

The range of those books gives a good sense of his interests. One is a compact historical study of a medieval pope; the other is a literary reader designed for students, suggesting that he wrote with education and general readers in mind rather than for a narrow scholarly audience.

Although detailed biographical information appears to be scarce online, his work places him among the many 19th-century authors who helped bring history and literature to a broader audience in clear, usable form.