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  2. Hellfire Club - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse - Wikipedia

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    A founder member of the Hell-Fire Club, Parsons was a notable Libertine (and nihilist [citation needed]), rebelling against the norms of the day [citation needed].He wrote the book Dionysus Rising after a trip to Egypt where he claimed to have found Dionysian scrolls looted from the Great Library of Alexandria.

  4. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Vice President Nelson Rockefeller presided over the dedication ceremony. [304] Many of Franklin's personal possessions are on display at the institute. In London, his house at 36 Craven Street, which is the only surviving former residence of Franklin, was first marked with a blue plaque and has since been opened to the public as the Benjamin ...

  5. Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Hellfire Club (comics) - Wikipedia

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    The seventh incarnation of the Hellfire Club have since founded the Hellfire Academy, a rival to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. It is located on an unnamed island. [ 18 ] According to Kade Kilgore, the purpose of recruiting newly empowered mutants is to train them to be supervillains so he can then profit from the fear generated by ...

  7. Sebastian Shaw (character) - Wikipedia

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    The Hellfire Club is forced to battle alongside the X-Men against Nimrod, a Sentinel from the future, and though victorious, two key members perish in the fight. After the battle, the Hellfire Club and the X-Men become allies of sorts, with Magneto and Storm filling the position of White King. [13]

  8. Category:Hellfire Club - Wikipedia

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    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"

  9. Paul Whitehead (satirist) - Wikipedia

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    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.