Thomas Scott, and its first patron was Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden,[4] a leading evangelical within the Second Reformation of Anglicanism, who said that the Society helped "unfortunate men [who] would be persecuted by the Church they left, and suspected by that which they joined".
[8] Among these were Denis Leyne Brasbie and W. J. Burke, who had converted prior to the society's formation and became early beneficiaries and advocates of its work.
[16] The Society is mentioned in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, in one of the "hallucinations" in the "Circe" episode, when Dr Dixon says that "Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man.
[17] This reflects a stereotypical association by Irish nationalists during the Gaelic revival of West Britonism with effeminacy;[18] It may also allude to the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which had funded a 1921 obscenity suit against The Little Review for publishing draft excerpts from Ulysses.
[19] As of 18 September 2017[update] the Reformed Priests Protection Society remains a registered charity with an address "care of the Irish Church Missions".