ABSTRACT
One summer's day, 22 June 1841, 59-year-old John Minter Morgan launched a scheme to establish ‘self-supporting villages’ under the superintendence of the Established Church. It was a stirring attempt and it secured a respectable response. An admiral (Sir G. Scott), a general (George Norton Eden) and a respectable muster of clergy, mainly from the Ham, East Sheen and West Molesley districts, all attended. 369
