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Robert Raikes , 1735-1811, English philanthropist. In 1780 he organized a Sunday school , primarily for poor children, who were taught to read and to spell to enable them to read the Bible. The Raikes system spread rapidly through England and he became known as the founder of Sunday schools, although others had been concerned with similar undertakings. Raikes gave his project publicity in the Gloucester Journal, which he had inherited from his father.

Bibliography: See biography by J. H. Harris (1899).

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Raikes, Robert (1736–1811), founder of Sunday Schools. The owner of the Gloucester Journal, Raikes was moved by the neglected condition of the local children and their behaviour on Sundays; he helped to establish a Sunday School in a neighbouring parish and in 1780 he started a school in his own parish, open on weekdays and Sundays, for the teaching of Scripture, reading, and other elementary subjects. Though Raikes was not the ‘inventor’ of Sunday Schools, his example and publicity stimulated their rapid expansion.

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