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Hellfire Club was a term used to describe several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Great Britain and Ireland in the 18th Century. The name most commonly refers to Francis Dashwood 's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe . [ 1 ]
Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, PC, FRS (December 1708 – 11 December 1781) was an English politician and rake, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club. Life and career
The Hellfire Club was created in 1980 by the Uncanny X-Men writer/artist duo of Chris Claremont and John Byrne, who were inspired by a 1966 episode of the British television series The Avengers ("A Touch of Brimstone"). [1] The name "Hellfire Club" was a popular name for gentlemen's clubs in the 18th century.
They were exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Pages in category "Hellfire Club" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
It was one of several exclusive establishments using the name Hellfire Club that existed in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Fisheye image of one of the reception rooms on the upper floor While the building has a rough appearance today, the architecture is of a Palladian design.
Portrait of Sir Francis Dashwood, the founder of the Knights of St Francis of Wycombe, a private members club which later became known as the notorious Hellfire Club, c. 1750 Members of a club founded by Sir Francis Dashwood included various politically and socially important 18th-century figures such as William Hogarth , John Wilkes , Thomas ...
Lord Barry of Santry seems to have been an extreme example of an eighteenth-century rake, a man of quarrelsome and violent nature, and a heavy drinker.He was a member of the notorious Dublin Hellfire Club: it is said that the club's reputation never fully recovered from the sensational publicity surrounding his trial for murder, although there is no reason to think that any of his fellow ...
His political intimacy with Sir Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer and other politicians, and his literary talents, made him an acceptable member of the dissipated circle calling themselves the "monks of Medmenham Abbey", and he was appointed secretary and steward of the Hellfire Club.