The Sunday School Society was a British association of Sunday schools.
The Sunday School Society was a British association of Sunday schools.
It was founded by Baptist deacon William Fox on 7 September 1785 in Prescott Street Baptist Church of London. [1] [2] The latter had been touched by articles by the editor of the Gloucester Journal, Robert Raikes, on the problems of youth crime. [3] Pastor Thomas Stock and Raikes have thus registered a hundred children from six to fourteen years old. Bible reading lessons were given by volunteer teachers in the morning and catechism took place in the afternoon. The society has published its textbooks and brought together nearly 4,000 Sunday schools. [4]
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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.
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A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually Christian in character. Other religions including Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism have also organised Sunday schools in their temples and mosques, particularly in the West.
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Thomas Stock (1750–1803) established the first Sunday school in the United Kingdom.
Thomas Raikes was a British merchant particularly trading from London with Russia, a banker and newspaper proprietor. Notably, he was Governor of the Bank of England during the 1797 currency crisis, when the Bank was prohibited by the British Government from paying out in gold.
Robert Raikes Esq., was an English banker, originally from London, that later established a bank in Kingston upon Hull. After 1805 he lived at Welton House in Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire, where in 1818 he had built a family mausoleum in park land to the north. He was the son of William Raikes, who had built a mausoleum in the Churchyard of St Mary, Woodford, London.
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Raikes Currie was Member of Parliament (MP) for Northampton from 1837 to 1857. He was a partner of the bank Curries & Co., which became part of Glyn, Mills & Co. in 1864, along with his father, Isaac Currie, in Cornhill, City of London, and had several interests in the newly developing colony of South Australia. He restored Minley Manor and made substantial improvements to the estate, work which was continued by his son and grandson.
The Canadian National Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination in Canada. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The headquarters is in Cochrane, Alberta.
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 3 July 1880 and marked the centenary of the opening of the first Sunday school. The critic Edmund Gosse considered the statue to be "as good as anything of the kind we possess in England". In 1958 it was designated a Grade II-listed building.
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William Fox was an English businessman, Baptist minister and founder of the Sunday School Society.
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