Primrose League Knight Companion's Full Dress Badge

A good original post 1886 period 'Primrose League Knight Companion's Full Dress Badge'. Good condition, original silk ribbon half primrose half violet and early feature safety pin suspension fitting. Overall Height with pin approx 77mm. In 1883 Lord Randolph Churchill father of Winston Churchill, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Sir Alfred Slade and Sir John Gorst formed this Conservative backed league to promote not only the party also National Patriotism and the unity of the British Empire. The motto of the League became Imperium et Libertas', this taken from the famous speech delivered by Benjamin Disraeli the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1879.