PRIMROSE LEAGUE.
« _. A MEMBERSHIP OF TWO MILLIONS. (By. Telegraph.'—Frees Aasoclntlon.—OopyrlKht) London; August 13, The membership of the Primrose League has reaobed two millions. "
A LITTLE IDEA THAT GREW
,■; is an- organisation i: f or spreading, -Conservative "principles ' among the British' Aypi'kingvclafSes.i'■ Tho- leaguo -spfang ■ frorn' the ceremony-, of- the; unveiling of - Lord 'Beaopnifield's'vStatue .O!i',fA.pril ' 19, 1883, the anniversary; of .;his-death.-.' Sir Henry Driim-;mbnd-W6lft\ a member of; the Eourtli Party, f'coming late>to'.thei.ctrenioriyi■ found'.all the 'XoriservatjvV. members the House of. Coin'-. ' iripns decorated 'with prfmroses!; .The. fact >-im:pressed.;him,so vividly'". that >he said'to "Lord .Randolph Churchill: "What-a show of, priro.r,oses!y.This should be turned to;account, Why. not- start ; a.Primrose", ; Leaguef". ' . : " ■'..;'-'"'■ .'.The.;idea.-.was accepted; and a meeting was held at .the' Carltoh Cliib shortly : afterwards, when. Lord Randolph .'..Chiirnhill, .'Sir.' Henry ;Wolff, Sir John Alfred -'Slade, Mr. , :Peroy ■ Mitford,: Colonel .Fred Burnaby,'. ■and others : w«e present.■; _Sir Henry Wolff drow; up the' plan ofv statutes,' and- he looked' for his models to' tl\e Orange Society, and to the. numerous/benefit /societies'; The league: 'cm,braced, all creedsand /classes. 'Any one joining, had , to.' takean oath to lnaintain' the "established religion, tho estates 1 of .'the realm;and;..the Imperial..ascendancy -of tho British Empire.!'-,/'- ■':'■'■.:.*'■ -:* ; ,' ; " v.y>'r ' -■■■'■■■'■ ; ■ ;On December 18,. 1883,"'.;the:first .public an-, .riouncenient 'was m ado ;in "The Times , ', .and ■''Morning Post.'?,-: In: 1885 a Ladies' Branch and.'. Grand ■; Council were ...formed 'by ;■: Lady Borthwick, with the Dowager ' Duchess of 'Marlborough .as president.' The. members of the. Primrose -League are styled, knights, .dames, -and associates, - and. the branohes - are oalled'.'"habitations!" ■ '.... . v
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 587, 16 August 1909, Page 7
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249PRIMROSE LEAGUE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 587, 16 August 1909, Page 7
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