The inscription refers to a request from Henry Morris for a sculpture to be placed in the grounds of a proposed village college in Impington, Cambridgeshire. Moore later wrote: ‘The Family Group in all its differing forms sprang from my absorbing [Morris’s] idea of the village college - that it should be an institution which could provide for the family unit at all its stages.’ The commission was delayed and finally refused due to lack of funds, but a cast of the resulting Family Group (LH 269) was installed at Barclay School, Stevenage, in 1950.