Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an

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politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the

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through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by

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, MP for

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��, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 16 May 2010. 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

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immigration into Liverpool and the widespread

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

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