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targeted. By presenting the Church as a central institution in the lives of English migrants, and by drawing a link between the institutional Church and the English national character, clergymen were essentially trying to realise three objectives: one was to identify and define an English national character; the second was to show that there was an essential connection between Englishness and Anglicanism
understanding of the term ‘mission’ as something tied fundamentally to conversion. 5 Though these works have made valuable contributions to our understanding of emigration’s place in nineteenth-century mission, a number of issues remain unaddressed. One is the nature of the connections between the expansion of the institutional Church overseas and the reform and revival of the Church in mainland Britain. We know
their own clergy. It also points to the nodal points on the periphery of empire that played a role in the expansion of the institutional Church. The Company officers who helped to build an evangelical presence at the Cape also reached out to Australia. Captain Frank Irvine – a former East India Company officer who settled with his family in New South Wales in 1820 – helped set up a corresponding