p. 824 Sir Francis Dashwood (1708–81), politician and rake, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Postmaster General. As organizer of the Hellfire Club from 1755, he was reputed to have staged orgies with other ‘monks,’ including John Wilkes and the poet Charles Churchill, first among the pastoral ruins of Medmenham Abbey on the bank of the Thames and then nearby in caves on the estate of his fine Palladian mansion at West Wycombe.
p. 842 ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ appeared in The Strand Magazine for January 1892.
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