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[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]
It is difficult to establish with any great certainty the progress made by the Orange Order in setting up benefit lodges in the Isle of Man because of the infrequent and minimal accounts in the newspapers, the complete absence of surviving records of their operation on the Island and their failure to lodge either in the memory of the living or in the annals of the Manx National Heritage Folk Life Survey.
The earlier group below are from a period of much anti-Catholic agitation, in Douglas particularly and to a lesser extent, in the rest of the Island. The second are from an ostensibly less troubled time, with less Protestant propaganda in the newspapers, when Catholics were beginning to take their place in public life.
From time to time, however an account of the Orange ethic would be published, which defined itself merely on the sectarian basis of its Protestant commitment and its anti-Catholicism.
The Douglas Orange Lodge opened in 1850 (Manx Sun 22 June 1850) is known as no. 1044, the De Bentley Lodge, with 130 members, (Manx Sun 28 August 1852 presumably organised by G.F.A. de Bentley, Esq., G.M.C. de Bentley, Esq., of Ellenbrook, Braddan, near Douglas, Thos. W. C. de Bently, Esq., Gordon House, Peel and B.P. Boughton, Esq.,Strathallan Crescent, Douglas.
The Lodge publicised its high moral tone in the Manx Sun of 19 April 1851 and in 1854 appointed Dr. Spittal to the post of surgeon (Manx Sun, 4 March 1854).
M.N.H.L., Isle of Man newspapers, as above,et passim.
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