1735 Died 1811

Robert Raikes

Categories: Education, Religion

Image source: www.gracemagazine.org.uk

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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