WHAT NAME was used to refer to two exclusive 18th century organizations in Britain and Ireland? The first, founded by Philip, Duke of Wharton in 1718, dissolved in 1722 following strict new laws against “horrid impieties”. The second, founded by Sir Francis Dashwood in 1749, was famous for the invention of the sandwich by one of its members (the Earl of Sandwich), but was shut down in the 1760s when a raid discovered “scurrilous, blasphemous, and libelous” materials.
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