Archibald Salvidge Explained

Sir Archibald Salvidge
Birth Date:	1863
Birth Place:	Birkenhead. Cheshire
Nationality:	British
Party:	Conservative Party
Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable

Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge (5 August 1863  - 11 December 1928) was an English politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party in Liverpool 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).^[1] Salvidge was not a member of the Orange Order but he claimed on the Glorious Twelfth of July 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 immigration into Liverpool and the widespread sectarianism 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).

Notes and References

1. Philip Waller, ‘Salvidge, Sir Archibald Tutton James (1863–1928)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 16 May 2010.