United Kingdom Alliance

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The United Kingdom Alliance was a temperance movement in the United Kingdom founded on 20 July 1852. It was based in Manchester and sought to outlaw the alcohol trade.

It was founded by an Irish cotton manufacturer and a member of the Religious Society of Friends, Nathaniel Card. It was originally called the National League for the Total and Legal Suppression of Intemperance but changed its name on 14 February, 1853. Its first president was Sir Walter Trevelyan and Sir Wilfrid Lawson was at one time its president. In 1858 membership had risen to 4,500 and £3,000 from subscriptions was raised. Its monthly paper, Alliance News, was founded in 1854 as a moral and social reform journal and was priced at one penny. In 1980 it became a bi-monthly magazine.

In 1942 it was renamed to United Kingdom Temperance Alliance Ltd and in 2003 was again renamed to the Alliance House Foundation.

The Alliance's theory of social rights came under attack from John Stuart Mill in his On Liberty.