The New International Encyclopædia/Raleigh, Alexander

RALEIGH, Alexander (1817-80). An English Congregational minister. He was born in Scotland; educated at the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester; and after holding charges at different places became a pastor in London (1858), and so continued till his death. He was highly honored by his brethren, being chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1868 and 1879, and their representative at the National Council of the American Congregational Churches (1865). He published numerous sermons and expositions, noted for their spiritual fervor and elevated diction. Consult his Life by his wife (London, 1881).