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The first official Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1718, by Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton and a handful of other high-society friends. The most notorious club associated with the name was established in England by Francis Dashwood, [ 5 ] and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.
A portrait of the Duke of Wharton by Rosalba Carriera c. 1718. Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton PC (21 December 1698 – 31 May 1731) was an English peer and Jacobite politician who was one of the few people in the history of England, and the first since the 15th century, to have been raised to a dukedom whilst still a minor and not closely related to the monarch.
Pages in category "Hellfire Club" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton; Paul Whitehead (satirist)
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 ...
Montpelier Hill (Irish: Cnoc Montpelier) [2] is a 383-metre (1,257 foot) hill in County Dublin, Ireland. [1] It is topped by the Hell Fire Club (Irish: Club Thine Ifreann), [3] the popular name given to the ruined building.
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Wharton's first published novella was The Touchstone, set in old New York, like many of her stories. It follows Stephen Glennard, who is suddenly impoverished and can't marry his beautiful ...
Philip Wharton was one of the founders of the original Hellfire Club. Sir John Rushout bought the manor, including Abbey House, from the Whartons in 1743. Abbey House belonged to members of the Rushout family for 150 years until, in 1896, Lady Elizabeth Rushout broke up the manor and sold off Abbey House.