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2 unusual facts about Robert Raikes


Robert Raikes

Their oldest son Reverend Robert Napier Raikes had a son General Robert Napier Raikes of the Indian Army.

Thomas Charles

He had learned of Robert Raikes's Sunday Schools before he left the Establishment, but he preferred his own system.


Georgian era

Philanthropists and writers such as Hannah More, Thomas Coram, Robert Raikes and Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, began to address the social ills of the day, and saw the founding of hospitals, Sunday schools and orphanages.

Quarwood

Pearson had previously designed Treberfydd in Brecknockshire for Robert Raikes (1818–1901), Hippisley's brother-in-law and grandson of Robert Raikes (1765–1837).


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