Francis Charteris (rake)
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Colonel Francis Charteris, nicknamed "The Rape-Master General", was a Scottish soldier and adventurer who earned a substantial sum of money through gambling and the South Sea Bubble. He was also a ser
Colonel Francis Charteris
Charteris' mistress, prostitute Sally Salisbury
Rake (stock character)
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In a historical context, a rake was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanizing. Often, a rake was also prodigal, wasting his fortune on gambling, wine, women, and song, and i
Francis Charteris (rake)
…land-holders and owned property in Amisfield, near Dumfries. Even before his conviction, he was notorious and despised by many in London as an archetypal rake. He had a serial military career, being dismissed from service four times; the third time in the Southern Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough, for…
A Rake's Progress, 3: The Tavern Scene, 1732–1733 painting depicting several rakes in a London tavern
Lord Rochester, the most infamous of the Restoration rakes
Sherlock Holmes knocks out the cad Woodley