Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… gathered in other countries influenced the practices of the clubs he founded; on the other hand, his involvement with the Hell-fire Club provides a remarkable if distorted mirror image of the eighteenth-century society’s focus on … and political conduct as laudable, 1 and in 1733 Baron Forbes (1685-1765) 2 had no issue entrusting a young Dashwood with vital political correspondence about the ongoing events at the court of St. Petersburg, stating that Dashwood’s presence afforded him the licence ‘to write with more freedom’. 3 As a testimony to his character, Dashwood was using his influence to provide the unemployed with …
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