Georgiana Ford

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

Biography Georgina Fletcher Ford She was one of eight children of the slave and plantation owning baronet Sir Francis Ford and his wife Mary (née Anson).

Welch's sister Sophia Chichester became a widow a year after her marriage to John Chichester. She moved to live with Welch and together the sisters began to patronise religious radicalism and political unorthodoxy.

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. In later years their mentor was James Elishama Smith, who they financially supported. 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. Their correspondence with Richard Carlile and their support for him expresses their ultra radical positions and careful proselytising.