What is recorded here
Robert Raikes is shown as a monument on the public map of City of Westminster. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Robert Raikes was a 19th-century philanthropist and social reformer, best known for founding the first Ragged School in London in 1818 to provide education for poor and destitute children. The monument in his honour in the City of Westminster commemorates his significant contribution to the development of elementary education in England.
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- Recorded date
- 1880
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