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National Temperance League (Great Britain)

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day's proceedings:-The British Temperance League; the United Kingdom Alliance; the North of England Temperance League; the Western Temperance League; the Midland Temperance League; the Dorset County Association; the Order of Rechabites; the two Orders of Good Templars; the Sons of Temperance; the Blue-Ribbon Army; the Metropolitan Open-Air Mission; the Band of Hope Union; the Baptist Association; the Congregational Association; and the Church of England Temperance Society. The occasion was a highly representative one. The programme included a Jubilee Conference, presided over by Edward Baines. Historical papers were read by the Rev. Dawson Burns, M.A., Dr. Norman Kerr, Rev. Dr. Valpy French, Captain H. D. Grant, C.B., Rev. Canon Ellison, and by Mr. Michael Young. A meeting took place in the Concert Room, where speeches were made by Mr. Gough and Mr. A. M. Sullivan, M.P. More than 32,000 persons were present.
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on September 2, 1879, was an attempt on the part of the National Temperance League to organise a celebration upon a general scale, and in this they were largely successful. Delegates were invited from every part of the U.K., and the following organisations were represented on the programme of the
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The object of this Society was to persuade the community that abstinence from strong drink as a common beverage was the most efficient means of reclaiming alcoholics, and of preserving the sober from habits of intemperance. The success of these efforts was considered to be highly encouraging. The
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The operations of the League were largely instrumental in awakening public attention to the necessity for effective measures against Intemperance, as well as in promoting distinctive temperance action amongst clergymen and ministers of different denominations, the medical profession, teachers of
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The League consisted of persons of all genders, who subscribed their names to a pledge or declaration of abstinence from all intoxicating beverages, and who contributed to the funds of the League not less than 2s. 6d. per annum. Contributions were accepted from all friends of temperance, whether
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The League's agencies were comprehensive and nonscctarian. It assisted local societies and individual workers, and sought to accomplish its object by means of public meetings, lectures, sermons, tract distribution, domiciliary visitation; conferences with the clergy, medical practitioners,
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schoolmasters, magistrates, and other persons of influence; deputations to teachers and students in universities, colleges, training institutions and schools; missionary efforts amongst sailors, soldiers, the militia, the police, and other classes.
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was a British organisation established in June 1856, through an amalgamation of two others: the National Temperance Society and the London Temperance League. Its Presidents included
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was commenced, in London, by William Tweedie, and was continued thereafter as the organ of the National Temperance League under the title of
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children, and other influential bodies. A gratifying degree of success was achieved by its efforts to advance sobriety in the Army and Navy.
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It provided support and was connected with the Ladies National Association for the Promotion of Temperance (established 1860) and
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The Anti-saloon League Year Book: An Encyclopedia of Facts and Figures Dealing with the Liquor Traffic and the Temperance Reform
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The League sought to promote temperance by the practice and advocacy of total abstinence from intoxicating beverages.
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The Ladies' National Temperance Convention of 1876. With an Introduction by Mrs. W. H. Smith
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Samuel Bowly
Edward Long Fox
Wentworth Leigh

Samuel Bowly
Strand, London
The Ladies' National Temperance Convention of 1876
The Crystal Palace
Samuel Bowly
George Cruikshank
Edward Long Fox
Victor Horsley
Wentworth Leigh
"Profiles of Organisations"







The National Temperance League's Annual



The Ladies' National Temperance Convention of 1876. With an Introduction by Mrs. W. H. Smith
"EDWARD LONG FOX, M.D.Oxon., F.R.C.P"
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10.1136/bmj.1.2153.861
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