Robert Raikes was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman. He was educated at The Crypt School Gloucester. He was noted for his promotion of Sunday schools.
Robert Raikes
Robert Raikes Statue, Victoria Embankment Gardens SW1 - London
Statue of Robert Raikes next to Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada
Front and back of the 1880 "Centenary of Sunday Schools" medal distributed to children attending Sunday Schools that year.
A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes.
Sunday school, Indians and whites. Indian Territory (Oklahoma), US, c. 1900.
Sunday school at a Baptist church in Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky in the United States, 1946.
Baptist Sunday school group in Amherstburg, Ontario, [ca. 1910]