TheLiberty and Property Defence League (LPDL) was a historic organisation, founded in 1882 byLord Elcho, for the support oflaissez-fairetrade. It served as a lobby group for industrialists and land-owners who were alarmed byGeorgism ("Single Tax"),trade unionism,socialism, and elements in theGladstone administration, but attracted also manyliberals and philosophicalindividualists.
The League continued to exist until the 1920s, but its president, Wemyss (Lord Elcho), resigned in 1913. This was after the individualism ofHerbert Spencer declined, which was the mainraison d'être of the League. The ideas of the organisation were carried on by theSociety of Individualists of SirErnest Benn.
A weekly pamphlet put out by the League was calledJus: A Weekly Organ of Individualism, which was edited byindividualist anarchistWordsworth Donisthorpe.[1]