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6. In 1853, the British Anti-State Church Association became the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control (the Liberation Society). 7. H. , 1929), 1: 142. 8. On Burns, see Brian Harrison, Dictionary of the British Temperance Society (Coventry, University of Warwick: Society for the Study of Labour History, 1973), 18. 9. W. S. Caine, MP, William Hoyle, FRS, and Reverend Dawson Burns, Local Options (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1885). 10. J. N. Morris, Religion and Urban Change.
For 35 years, the younger Burns served as the chief London representative of the United Kingdom Alliance, the largest antidrink association in Britain. In the mid-1870s, he published Christendom and the Drink Curse: An Appeal to the Christian World for Efficient Action against the Causes of Intemperance. 9 By employing members of the clergy as its recruiting agents, the United Kingdom Alliance provided the Liberator with a model to conduct business. Balfour and Dawson Burns became close associates.
In early 1892, Balfour claimed that “they had avoided the speculative builder. ’ ”17 On the contrary, he and his associates speculated recklessly. Covertly, they used the subsidiary real estate companies and funds from the Liberator to sell properties back and forth among themselves at fictitious profits. In one notorious case, two directors of the Liberator bought an estate for £17,000, and they then sold it to another of Balfour’s companies for £34,000. 19 He also reported these so-called profits to his shareholders in the company annual general meetings to encourage depositors to provide new funds.
