Georgiana Welch

Georgiana Fletcher Welch (née Ford; 9 June 1792 – 8 April 1879) was an English patron of religious and political unorthodoxy.

[2] She was one of eight children of the slave and plantation owning baronet Sir Francis Ford and his wife Mary (née Anson).

They became friends of the reformer James Pierrepont Greaves as well as secularist George Jacob Holyoake and Robert Owen.

[3] In 1844 they left Ebworth Park and came to live at Ham Common near the community and school founded by Greaves called the Concordium or Alcott House.

Their attempts to reform the world were performed predominantly from their home by letter, at times via an agent, B. D. Cousins, himself a radical publisher.