Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… Image William Platt, after William Hogarth, ‘Sir Francis Dashwood worshipping Venus’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D37234, late 18th century. Abstract The … even if reality differed considerably from club to club. The most prominent of these societies belonged to the Duke of Wharton, the Earl of Rosse, and Francis Dashwood, providing a contrast to the contemporary focus on manners and social … rumor mills of London to churn more heavily and has led contemporaries as well as historians to difficulties teasing apart legends from facts. The first of these notorious societies congregated around Philip Wharton, the first Duke of …
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