ABSTRACT
Allen's scheme for a colony was stimulated by the poverty-stricken appearance of the village of Lindfield near Brighton. With its church a dilapidated wreck, the tithes owned by a lay impropriator, and no school, it was an eye-sore. He employed an investigator to supplement and enlarge his own findings in the area. He also launched, in 1822, a successor to his journal The Philanthropist, This was The Inquirer, a significant change of name. He also began to explore the best ways in which a poor man and his family could best live on two acres of land.
