Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… met the exiled Pretender in 1716, marking the beginning of his ever-shifting allegiances. In his Moral Essays (1731-35), Alexander Pope, who lived near Wharton in Twickenham, describes him as a deeply ambivalent person: ‘A fool with more of wit than … too refin’d […] He dies, sad out-cast of each church and state / And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great’. 1 1 . Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: In Four Epistles (Glasgow: printed by R. Urie, 1754), p. 16, lines 204-205. Wharton’s …
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