Dashwood: The Man and the Myth

by Eric Towers

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085030427X
• ISBN13: 9780850304275
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Crucible
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Satanist Pervert and Revered Statesman

Over the last 20 years of his life, Sir Francis Dashwood "became the subject of lurid gossip and has remained so ever since. Out of convivial meetings with a select group of friends at Medmenham Abbey in Buckinghamshire grew the myth of the Hell Fire Club...black magic and devil worship to the ravishing of specially procused virgins" The Medmenham fraternity has "fueled considerable literature, but is there any factual basis for the Dashwood legend?" This book seeks to determine to what extent Dashwood was a legendary "lecher and satanist" and to what extent he was "sociable, well-travelled, responsible, and respected." (He was, after all, valued by his contemporaries Ben Franklin and William Pitt.) Trade paperback, illustrated, 256 pp. Indexed with bibliographic references incorporated into the text and 6 pages of "Chapter Notes" at the end with bibliographic material.