 Today it is part of the Moyamba District of the country.In the early 1850s, while still a boy, Thomas Caulker was sent by his father to London for his health and to acquire a Christian education in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, pioneered in the eighteenth century by the evangelical Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.The Caulker family and other Afro-European families frequently sent their children to England for an education.