Society for the Reformation of Manners Society would pay others to bring prosecutions, or bring prosecutions on its own account. A prominent supporter of the Society was John Gonson, Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the City of Westminster for 50 years in the early 18th century. He was noted for his enthusiasm for raiding brothels and for passing harsh sentences, and was depicted twice in William Hogarth's "A Harlot's Progress" series of paintings and engravings. In around 1770, the Society denounced Covent Garden as: The Society sought and gained the patronage of both Church and Crown: John Tillotson, the Archbishop
John Trotter (painter) the "An Exhibition of 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Century Irish Paintings" at Gorry Gallery, and the "Exhibiting Art in Georgian Ireland" at the Irish Georgian Society in 2018, which displayed a work by Trotter from a private collection, "Portrait of an officer of an Irish Volunteer Regiment in a wooded landscape, holding a spontoon". John Trotter (painter) John Trotter (d. 1792) was an Irish artist and portrait painter. The first record of John Trotter appear in 1756, when his work was lauded by the "Hibernian Journal" while he was still a student in the Dublin Society's School. He spent