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[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]
The third, and longest surviving of Ramsey's benefit clubs, founded in 1818 by a breakaway element of the youngest members of the town's senior benefit club, the Ramsey Philanthropic Society, founded in 1795, alarmed by the prospect of failure of funds in a club with an ageing membership after almost a quarter of a century in operation. That the club survived until 1889, a life of 94 years, says more perhaps for the rising social, and consequently financial status of the membership and its development, as perceived in Ramsey, towards 'a Gentlemen's club' than its grasp of actuarial realities, as a flat rate of 1/- per month subscription was agreed upon in the 1832 code of articles by the younger society and no further reforms of the revenue structure were considered.
Isle of Man newspapers passim;
Code of Articles of the Amicable Society of Ramsey, (1832) [noted as re-printed
MM D126/3(c) + D126/3(g)].
C.K. Radcliffe, Shining by the Sea a History of Ramsey 1800-1914, (1989).
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