Origins and Context
The origins of the Liverpool Protestant Party lie in the increasing dissatisfaction with the Conservative and Unionist Party felt by many Orange Lodge members and other militant Protestants in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
This unease was caused by a number of issues:-
- The use of the Conservative whip in parliament to oppose the extension of factory inspection to convent laundries
- The Education Act 1902 making public money available to Roman Catholic Schools (“Rome on the Rates”)
- The failure to enact a new Church Discipline Act, or amend the old one, to provide for a more effective counter to extreme ritualism in the Church of England
The first attempt to secure independent Protestant representation was made by John Kensit leader of the Protestant Truth Society, who stood for Parliament in Brighton in 1898. In Ireland this unease manifested itself in the creation of the Independent Orange Order in Belfast in 1902.
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