London Positivist Society

[8] That summer, Congreve dissolved the Society, for he wished to make sure everyone involved in the group advocated Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity.

In 1878, the Society's members published a range of attacks on one another, including Congreve's Circular Addressed to all my Coreligionists, to all the Disciples of Auguste Comte; E.S.

Beesly, Bridges, Harrison, and Vernon Lushington, among others, carried on as the London Positivist Society, expanding the group's membership to 93 members by 1891.

[8] Those who were elected members included, at one time or another, the barrister Frederic Harrison; the historian E. S. Beesly; the physicians Evan Buchanan Baxter and John Henry Bridges.

[11][8] Others affiliated to the group in some way included the sociologists Charles Booth, Patrick Geddes, Victor Branford, and Sybella Gurney;[12][4][13] Henry Tompkins (1870–1954); Donald Fincham (1916–1969); George Henry Lewes (1817–1878); Frederick William Walsh (1879–1923), who had been paralysed in an industrial accident but whose mind remained sharp; Paul Juste Decours; and Benjamin Fossett Lock (honorary secretary of the Society 1880–1886), who resigned in 1886 over the Irish home rule debate.