Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Raikes NPG D39181

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

A philanthropist and businessman, Raikes campaigned for prison reform and devoted himself to establishing Sunday Schools. In 1780, he founded the first formal, free Sunday School in Gloucester. As editor and owner of the Gloucester Journal he was able to use his own newspaper to promote the idea that Sunday Schools could prevent juvenile delinquency, religious ignorance and unemployment by teaching children to read and write.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.