Frederic James Edward Raby, CB, FSA, FBA (11 December 1888 – 30 October 1966) was an English Latinist, historian and government official.
[3] He played an important role in organizing the WWII "Salvage Scheme," in which the Ministry of Works employed architects to provide timely first-aid repairs to bomb damaged historic buildings.
[4] Alongside his government work, Raby began his own researches; a project on the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa turned into an even larger one on Christian-Latin poetry.
[5] As the classical scholar Michael Lapidge has written, Raby "achieved an international reputation for his scholarship in the field of medieval Latin literature", which was "based principally" on his first two books.
[8] As Lapidge also wrote, Raby "put the study of medieval Latin poetry on a professional level" for the first time in England.