Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 PC (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an English

England

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 politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 in Liverpool

Liverpool

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 through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by Warden Chilcott, MP for Liverpool Walton). Salvidge was not a member of the Orange Order

Orange Institution

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 but he claimed on the Glorious Twelfth of July

The Twelfth

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 1891 that his principles and the Orangemen's were one and the same due to the WMCA's requiring members "to be a sound Protestant". Due to the high Irish

Ireland

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 immigration into Liverpool and the widespread sectarianism

Sectarianism

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 in the city, Salvidge managed to galvanise Liverpool's Protestant population behind the Conservative Party in their opposition to Irish Home Rule.

Further reading

• Stanley Salvidge, Salvidge of Liverpool: Behind the Political Scene, 1890–1928 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1934).
• P. J. Waller, Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939 (Liverpool University Press, 1981).