She will join Sir Winston Churchill ... at the Tower of London or worse - the scaffold. The aristocrat Francis Dashwood - a notorious libertine and heavy drinker - became Chancellor in 1780.

Since I was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ... The aristocrat Francis Dashwood - a notorious libertine and heavy drinker - became Chancellor in 1780.

Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland ... This portrait depicts Dashwood later in life but he had been painted some years earlier by Hogarth in the guise of St Francis worshipping at the ...

More scandalous still is Sir Francis Dashwood at his Devotions. The sitter, dressed up as St Francis, was the leader of a hellfire club, the Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe, whose members ...

largely known for its outlandish activities of London's high and low societies during the mid-eighteenth century that included John Wilkes, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Sandwich, Sir ...

This village in England is home to a network of underground caves which have a very interesting history. The caves in West Wycombe were built in the 17th century and were excavated for Francis ...

The Australian Fire Danger Rating System gives you an idea of how dangerous a fire could be if one starts in your area. It's quite simple — and it could save your life. The bushfire outlook ...

Sir Henry Keswick, who has died aged 86, was a youthful taipan of Jardine Matheson, his family’s Far Eastern trading house, ...

In an encyclical titled “He Loved Us,” Francis draws on spiritual themes in the hopes of helping people find deeper meaning while living in today’s hectic societies. By Emma Bubola Reporting ...

And one morning at a hotel in Missouri in 2021, they had considered a tangible clock, but not Sir Big Spur’s internal clock. Daylight saving time had pushed the clocks back an hour. And driving ...

In his Angelus address on Friday on the solemnity of All Saints, Pope Francis spoke about the “identity card” of the Christian. Referring to the Gospel passage for the day, the beatitudes from ...