Sons of Temperance

The Sons of Temperance required a US$2 initiation fee, an amount equal to a week's wages of an ordinary worker.

These were first created in the English chapters of the order after a public outcry against females meeting with males in secret lodges.

"[1] The constitution of the Sons of Temperance required the brotherhood to pay thirty dollars to cover the burial costs of any brother who died.

[4] The Order of the Sons of Temperance was introduced into the United Kingdom in 1849, the first division being formed in an area of Liverpool known as 'Old Gory'.

By 1855, it was sufficiently widespread that a charter was granted by the parent body for the institution, on 6 April 1855, of the National Division of Great Britain and Ireland.

[5] According to the 1928 Blue Book of rituals, the Worthy Patriarch told new members at initiation that 'While we rejoice at our own deliverance, let us remember that the world has claims upon us.

[6] Under the revised 1979 Rules, the Platform of the Society included the wearing of Regalia by all officers while conducting business as ‘an essential matter to be enforced in all branches’.

After 2012, the society ceased the provision of life insurance, savings plans, etc., but continued its social, fraternal and educational activities.

[7] As of 08/08/22, there is an archived copy of the 2015 UK Sons of Temperance website online here https://web.archive.org/web/20150223024735/http://sonsoftemperance.info/index.htm The Order was established in the then colony of New South Wales by a Dr Hobbs, Baptist minister.

McBride, Alexander Rennie, Thomas Sinclair, William Henderson, Robert Bacon, Henry Sears, and John Adams organised an inaugural meeting of the first Sons and Daughters of Temperance Lodge in New Zealand.

There were separate funds to support widows and orphans, and a Lodge would pay for a member's funeral coffin, plot, and headstone.