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This bronze commemorative plaque records: Glory be to God for the life of Frederic Rainer. Born 1836 Died 1911. A native of Windsor and a resident of this parish. A lover of fallen humanity and a worker in the cause of temperance to whose suggestion the Police Court Mission owed it's origin in 1876 when the Church of England Temperance Society appointed the first missionary to a South London court it's subsequent expansion led to the probation acts which now adorn the statute books of England. This tablet was erected in the year of Jubilee 1926. "Blessed be the merciful for they shall obtain mercy" S. Matthew V. 7.
Frederic Rainer was a Windsor native and advocate for temperance whose suggestion led to the establishment of the Police Court Mission in 1876, contributing significantly to the development of probation acts in England.
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