Wilberforce also coordinated an Evangelical lobby in Parliament whose members were nicknamed ‘the Saints’. The Christian Observer (founded 1802) became the official organ of the party, and Evangelical causes were advanced by voluntary societies—some interdenominational like the Religious Tract Society and some not, like the Church Missionary Society (see pp. 485–7). To secure adequate patronage for Evangelicals, the Simeon Trustees were established in 1836 and advowsons (the right of presenting a