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but since it was chaired by ßridäeuGh, and other seculerinte
wero ^rocout f thi. c wan hardly curprisin .
On the whole then, Nonconformists rocjitod
expansion in the Sudan in 1885. There was thus a direct
correlation between anti"4nporialisa* aothermhip of
dissenting religions and political Liberal smi just au
on the other hand Conoorvatism and nomborchip of the
Ectabliched Church were coming to be identified with an
Imperialist ethos.
The organised Anti-expnnoionint movement in 1882
to 1885 centred around a combination of radical clubs and
vorldnmen0a associations* a few of the core vociferously
anti-Imparia3i®t
M1.
Po. 9 Pocitivista and mombera of the
three peace societies. Among the individuals who
Played an important part Wilfred Scawen Blunt stands outs
Ito was a rather dilettante Tory Deriocrati a Homo Ruler,
an Arabojhile who owned an estate in E 'pt#, and an anti.
Imperialist who opposed the Government from the vary
beginning of ito intervention in Egypt. lie did not fit
into the uouol anti-Imperialist : Gould, - be was a Catholic
landownör, a non-Liberal who despised Gladctono an On
pedant, a'babbler and an incompetent old fool. " (1)
1} WS5Blufft, ßordon nt Khartoum p«362,