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RAIKES, ROBERT (173518,x)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 818 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RAIKES, ROBERT (173518,x) ,
English
  educationist, the founder of Sunday schools, was the son of Robert Raikes, a printer in
Gloucester
  and proprietor of the
Gloucester
 
Journal
 , and was born on the 14th of September 1735. On the death of his father in 1757 he succeeded him in the business, which he continued to conduct till 1802. Along with some others he started a Sunday school at Gloucester in 178o, and on his giving publicity to the enterprise in the columns of his
journal
  the notice was copied into the London papers and awakened considerable attention. For nearly thirty years he continued actively engaged in the promotion of his undertaking, and he lived to
witness
  its wide extension throughout England. He died on the 5th of
April
  1811. His statue stands on the Thames
Embankment
 .
Among various accounts of the
life
  and
work
  of Raikes mention may be made of that by P. M. Eastman, 1880.


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