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[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]
This society was set up early in the Reverend James Carr's incumbency, in the manner of the typical Mutual Improvement society with a reading room and library and a course of lectures 'calculated to instruct and amuse, but, as far as possible, avoiding subjects which were sectarian, or even theological.' During the period of most intense anti-Catholic feeling, the Club was widely believed to be a Ribbon Club, an anti-Protestant secret society, one of the many factors inciting the riot of 4 November 1858.
M.N.H.L.,Rev.James Carr, The Religious riots in the Isle of Man :Letter to the Liverpool Daily Post , December 1 1858 ( Douglas 1858 ) E186/1x, A.R. 8957
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