Including Francis Allen of Cockley Cley Hall who had business interests in Egypt.

[3] He started a pharmacy company named Stafford Allen and sons in 1833 which created large profits.

The company created a wide range of products but specialised in derivatives from Cedar wood and cloves.

[2] In the same year Harriet Jacobs who was a former slave and activist visited Britain to raise funds for orphans and freed, but poverty stricken, people in Savannah, Georgia.

Jacobs published her appeal for funds in the Anti-Slavery Reporter and asked for them to be sent to Clementia Taylor, Robert Alsop or Stafford Allen.