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Known for. founding the Sunday school movement. Spouse. Anne Trigge. Children. three sons & seven daughters. Robert Raikes (" the Younger ") (14 September 1735 – 5 April 1811) 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 .
While at Ashbury, he formed the first Sunday school in the country in 1777. Stock became rector of St Aldate's and then of St John Baptist's, Gloucester and headmaster of Gloucester Free School. He was also vicar of Glasbury-on-Wye. At Gloucester, jointly with Robert Raikes, proprietor of the Gloucester Journal, Stock became co-founder of the ...
Robert Raikes. The genesis of the Sunday school occurred in 1780 in Gloucester, England, when philanthropist Robert Raikes arranged for the teaching of a measure of literacy and religious instruction to slum children, most of whom worked six days a week and had Sunday as their only free day. The experiment proved successful and was taken up ...
United Kingdom. Coordinates. 51°30′34″N 0°07′13″W. / 51.50934°N 0.12029°W / 51.50934; -0.12029. A statue of Robert Raikes, often regarded as being the founder of Sunday schools, executed by the sculptor Thomas Brock, stands in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London, United Kingdom. It was unveiled by the Earl of Shaftesbury on ...
A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes. Sunday school classes usually precede a Sunday church service and are used to provide catechesis to Christians, especially children and teenagers, and sometimes adults as well. Churches of many Christian denominations have ...
History. Plaque marking Ladybellegate House. The building is a town house built around 1704 for Edward Wagstaffe. [2] The house is notable for its fine Rococo plasterwork and carved oak staircase. [2] Robert Raikes junior, founder of Sunday Schools, was born at Ladybellegate House in 1736. [3] He also lived there from 1757 to 1772.
Inspired by Robert Raikes, Trimmer also became active in the Sunday school movement, founding the first Sunday school for poor children in Old Brentford in 1786. She and two of the ministers in her parish, Charles Sturgess and Charles Coates, organized a fund drive and established several schools for the poor children of the neighborhood. [8]
1772–1774. The Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion, written by 18th-century English Dissenting minister and polymath Joseph Priestley, is a three-volume work designed for religious education published by Joseph Johnson between 1772 and 1774. [1] Its central argument is that revelation and natural law must coincide.