ABSTRACT
Dr Henry Travis was born in Scarborough and trained as a physician. A prominent Owenite, he spent time at the Queenwood community in Hampshire and later acted along with William Pare as Robert Owen’s joint literary executor. Like Pare, he continued to argue for the relevance of Owen’s ideas throughout the 1860s and 1870s, contributing regularly to the co-operative press, including Henry Pitman’s Co-operator , the first co-operative periodical with a national circulation. The new arrangements may at first be constructed by joint-stock companies, with limited liability, to whom they will be a most desirable form of investment. And various other means will be adopted to provide the funds required for the extension of the system, as the benefits to be derived from it by all classes of existing society become known. No limits can be assigned to the improvements which may be made upon the economically constructed arrangements of the first communities for the working classes.
