Robert Raikes and seven daughters. Their younger son William Henley Raikes became colonel of the Coldstream Guards, having fought for the British in the Napoleonic Wars. Their oldest son Reverend Robert Napier Raikes had a son General Robert Napier Raikes of the Indian Army. Robert was a pioneer of the Sunday school movement, although he did not start the first Sunday School. Some already existed such as that founded by Hannah Ball in High Wycombe which is the first documented known case. He inherited a publishing business from his father, becoming proprietor of the "Gloucester Journal" in 1757. He then moved the
Robert Raikes (1765–1837) Raikes, at the north end of Welton Dale, approximately from Welton village and Welton House. The building is circular with a shallow domed roof on top of a frieze decorated with triglyphs, and stands on a circular plinth that originally was railed. The inscription:AEDIFICAVIT ROBERTUS RAIKES ARMIGER AD MDCCCXVIII<br><br> "Robert Raikes, Esquire, built this. 1818 AD" is above the entrance. Eight doric pilasters divide the exterior into bays, alternate bays are blind, the remainder decorated in relief with sarcophagii. The building is faced in light stone, and may have been modelled on an original Roman building. The building is round