Claim: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a group.

Samuel Liddell -LRB- or Liddel -RRB- MacGregor Mathers -LRB- 8 or 11 January 1854 -- 5 or 20 November 1918 -RRB- , born Samuel Liddell Mathers , was a British occultist . He is primarily known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , a ceremonial magic order of which offshoots still exist today .