[2] He was rector of Stratfield Saye from 1855 until his death, but his interests were in archaeology and he led excavations at Calleva Atrebatum where he discovered the Silchester eagle in 1866.

Joyce had been one of the GFS's seventy-five founding associates and she wanted to support emigration, but she was aware of the risks that girls would be exposed to.

She would speak at Church congresses noting the Christianising and moral improvement made possible by the new women emigrants sent by her organisation.

[2] At first the emigrants were bound for Canada, New Zealand and Australia but as the century ended there was growing interest in South Africa.

[4] Louisa Knightley was president of the South African Colonisation Society and she was the editor of the Imperial Colonist journal from 1901 to 1913.