Robert Raikes

Standard Name: Raikes, Robert

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Publishing Sarah Trimmer
The full title is Sacred History Selected from the Scriptures, with Annotations and Reflections, suited to the Comprehension of young Minds, particularly calculated to facilitate the Study of the Holy Scriptures in Schools and Families...

Timeline

About 1765
Catharine Cappe opened one of the earliest recorded Sunday schools, at Catterick in Yorkshire.
1769
Hannah Ball opened an early Methodist Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
July 1780
Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday school.