Always the opportunists, the Tremere have been infiltrating whatever area lacks influence from the other clans. They count among their pawns the disaffected younger aristocracy, rich industrialists not accepted by the old social structure, and merchants who control increasingly more of the money moving through the enormous British Empire.
One of their most successful inroads has been with the aristocracy. The tradition of the Grand Tour, where gentlemen tour the continent as part of their political and aesthetic education, has been greatly encouraged by the usurpers. This is because it tends to lend Continental and Classical sensibilities to the young aristocrats, removing them further from their elders and predecessors and making them more receptive to Tremere influence.
In fact, it was a Tremere ghoul named Francis Dashwood who founded the Society of Dilettanti, composed of aesthetically-minded young gentlemen who had taken the Grand Tour. He was also the founder of the Medmenham Club, a decadent social and political organization reputed to practice occult rituals and mockeries of Christian rites, as well as host depraved orgies. It became the model for similar 'Hellfire Clubs' throughout the British Isles, which all served as fronts for the Tremere. In keeping with their purpose, they were established near universities in Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
There is a bit of concern, however, among the Continental Tremere about this tactic, particularly given that the inspiration for it came to Dashwood after a visit to Venice, during his own Grand Tour. Given the proclivities of the Sabbat in that city, not to mention the influence of the Giovanni there, it is wondered if Dashwood's social clubs might be a front for something even more blasphemous. The eldest among the Tremere remember the Cainite Heresy all too well and note a disturbing similarity between its practices and those of the Hellfire Clubs.