Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.
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Robert Raikes
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Chiswick National School
Much of the following information comes from the very helpful Gill Clegg's Chiswick History page. 1707 a charity school was founded at St Nicholas church near the river. It expanded until in 1813 ...
1 memorial
University College London (UCL)
The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the first not to discriminate on race, class or religion, and the first to accept women on equal terms. Jeremy Bentham was no...
8 memorials
Sunday Schools (centenary)
Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
1 memorial
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Founded by the four Fabians: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw.
3 memorials
William Edward Forster
Born Dorset. Member of Parliament for Bradford, 1861- 1886, where there is another statue of him. Educational reformer. Died at 80 Eccleston Square.
Person, Education, Industry, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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