Joseph Malins
Male, Deceased Person
1844 – 1926
Who was Joseph Malins?
Joseph Malins a temperance activist was born at 7, Askew Place, Worcester on 21 October 1844. He emigrated to the USA with his wife and found work as a painter of railway wagons.
When he returned to England he brought back the Independent Order of Good Templars, a temperance organization he had joined in the USA. The first English lodge was called Columbia No. 1 in Morton’s Chapel, Cregoe Street, Birmingham, founded on 8 September 1868. He became president of the English Good Templars, though sometimes called despotic. From 1876 to 1887 the English and Irish Good Templars were in conflict with the Good Templars in America, as in 1875 the American body had adopted a policy of accepting de facto segregation of lodges in the American South after the American Civil War.
For the reunion of the American and English lodges in 1887 he compromised by accepting segregation, but Malins and the Good Templars were uncompromising over temperance and regarded as extreme in England. Mallins was in favour of Local Option votes for local areas, which could vote to go “dry”. He opposed compensation for liquor licence owners and public management of retail liquor outlets. Mallins supported the Liberal Party, but went from supporting the Liberal Unionists to supporting the Home Rule Liberals. His support for candidates depended on their attitude to temperance.
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