Usually means: Founder of the Sunday School.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Robert Raikes)

noun:  ("the Younger") (14 September 1735 – 5 April 1811) an English philanthropist and Anglican layman.
noun:  Robert Raikes Esq., was an English banker, originally from London, that later established a bank in Kingston upon Hull.
noun:  an English pioneer of Sunday schools, Gloucester newspaper publisher, and philanthropist.
noun:  Admiral Sir Robert Henry Taunton Raikes KCB CVO DSO (23 August 1885 – 24 May 1953) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station.
noun:  Robert Raikes later known as Robert Raikes Fulthorpe, of Northallerton, Yorkshire, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament.


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