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Though not believed to have been a member, Benjamin Franklin was a close friend of Dashwood who visited the caves on more than one occasion. The Hellfire Club had previously used Medmenham Abbey, eight miles (13 km) from West Wycombe on the River Thames, as a meeting place, but the caves at West Wycombe were used for meetings in the 1750s and ...
Dashwood was too young to have been a member of the first Hellfire Club, founded by Philip, Duke of Wharton in 1719 and disbanded in 1721, but he and John Montagu are alleged to have been members of a Hellfire Club that met at the George and Vulture Inn throughout the 1730s. It was again at the George and Vulture that in 1746 Dashwood founded ...
The supposed president of this club was the Devil, although the members themselves did not apparently worship demons or the Devil, but called themselves devils. [12] Wharton's club admitted men and women as equals, unlike other clubs of the time. [11] The club met on Sundays at a number of different locations around London.
Articles related to the various incarnations of the Hellfire Club and their members. They were exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Pages in category "Hellfire Club"
In 1724, Dashwood bequeathed this square conventional house to his 16-year-old son, the 2nd Baronet, also Francis, who later inherited the title Baron le Despencer through his mother and is perhaps best known for establishing the Hellfire Club close to the mansion, in the West Wycombe Caves. Between 1726 and 1741, Dashwood embarked on a series ...
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Six members of a Kansas-based cult have been convicted over a conspiracy in which they forced children as young as eight to work 16-hour days under the threat of “eternal hellfire.”. The ...
Askeaton GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village. Munster football championship games, known as Páirc na nGael, were held on the club's pitch in 1970 and between 1987 and 1991. [citation needed] Askeaton Contemporary Arts is an artists' residency programme that has taken place in Askeaton each summer since 2006. [11]