Ancient and Noble Order of Gormogons

The Ancient and Noble Order of Gormogons (or August and Noble Order of Gormogons) was a pseudo-Oriental secret society, allegedly founded in China and open exclusively to non-Masons, though it was speculated that the group was more likely organised by Roman Catholic or Jacobite agitators formerly involved in English Masonry, and specifically by Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, founder of the original Hellfire Club and former Mason.