Dashwood-King (1716–1793). Portrayal in literature and other media Francis Dashwood has appeared in literary works by the following authors: Charles Brockden Brown in his 1798 novel Wieland describes the character Carwin as "specious seducer Dashwood." J. Meade Falkner in his 1895 novel The Lost Stradivarius describes the necromancer Adrian Temple as "acquainted with Francis Dashwood, the notorious Lord le Despencer ... many a winter's night saw him riding through the misty Thames meadows to the door of the sham Franciscan abbey ... of Medmenham." Robert Anton Wilson in his 1975 The Illuminatus! Trilogy and 1980–81 Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy. James Herbert in the 1994 novel The Ghosts of Sleath. Eddie Campbell in the 1994 four-issue story arc Warped Notions for the comic book Hellblazer. Kathy Reichs in the 2001 Novel Fatal Voyage. Carrie Bebris in her 2005 Regency novel Suspense and Sensibility. Mike Carey in the 2006 four-issue story arc Reasons to Be Cheerful for the comic book Hellblazer. Kage Baker in her 2007 short story "Hellfire at Twilight". Tom Knox in the 2009 novel The Genesis Secret. Diana Gabaldon in her 1998 novella Lord John and the Hellfire Club. Dashwood is mentioned in a longer version of the section "The Sailor's Hornpipe" on Mike Oldfield's debut album Tubular Bells. See also Dashwood baronets Baron le Despencer Dunston Pillar St Lawrence's Church, West Wycombe West Wycombe Caves West Wycombe Park References Notes Citations Bibliography Attribution Endnotes A volume of Dashwood's correspondence extending from 1747 to 1781 is in Egerton MS. 2136, and letters from him to Wilkes are in Addit. MS. 30867. See also Journals of the Lords and Commons; Official Return of Members of Parl.; Old Parliamentary History; Lists of Sheriffs, P.R.O.; Horace Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, vols. i-v. and vii., Memoirs of George II, ed. Lord Holland, and of George III, ed. Barker; Wraxall's Hist. and Posthumous Mem., ed. Wheatle; Almon's Mem. and Corresp. of John Wilkes, ed. 1805; Bubb Dodington's Diary, ed. 1809, passim; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters; Chesterfield's Letters; Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill; Charles Johnston's Chrysal, 1768; Churchill's Poems, The Ghost and the Candidate; Bedford Correspondence; Thomson's Hist, of the Royal Soc.; Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, viii. 236, ix. 454 (where he is confused with Thomas Stapleton, his successor in the barony); Mahon's Hist, of England; Leeky's Hist, of England; Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire; Collinson's Somerset; Doran's 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence; Cust's History of the