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Robert Raikes

English promoter of Sunday schools · Journalists · Lived 1736 to 1811 · aged 74

Robert Raikes was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman. He was educated at The Crypt School in Gloucester. He was noted for his promotion of Sunday schools.

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Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1736 to 1811 · aged 74

Journalists born in the 1730s 2