Person    | Male  Born 14/9/1735  Died 1811

Robert Raikes

Categories: Education, Religion

Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.

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Robert Raikes

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Robert Raikes statue

There is a copy of this statue in Gloucester and another in Toronto.

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R. E. H. Goffin

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Frank George Fabian Jeffery

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Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art

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Louise Soloway

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1 memorial