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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
c. 1735 painting of the Dublin Hellfire Club's members
Portrait of Sir Francis Dashwood by William Hogarth
Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, PC, FRS was an English politician and rake, Chancellor of the Exchequer and founder of the Hellfire Club.
Hellfire Club
…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. Such clubs were rumoured to have served as the meeting places of "persons of quality" who wished to…
Francis Baron le Despencer by Nathaniel Dance Holland
West Wycombe Park