Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… In Four Epistles (Glasgow: printed by R. Urie, 1754), p. 16, lines 204-205. Wharton’s contrarian streak revealed itself once more upon founding the Hell-fire Club in the early 1720s, the primary objective of which was to have … fundamental Truths of the Christian Religion’. 4 The bill he sought to impose was defeated – unsurprisingly, Wharton himself had spoken passionately against it – but it nevertheless set London’s press aflame. On May 6 th 1721, the Tory … society – the Schemers – of which Wharton was a ‘chief director’, and who met at the house of Viscount Hillsborough, himself a likely member of the Wharton Club. At Hillsborough’s estate, the Schemers concerned themselves with ‘the …
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