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Dick Turpin

English highwayman (1705–1739)

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About Dick Turpin

Richard Turpin was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer. He is also known for a fictional 200-mile (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by George Cruikshank; the book was written by William Harrison Ainsworth via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Occupation

robber, highwayman, prisoner

Citizenship

Kingdom of Great Britain

Born

September 21, 1705

Died

April 7, 1739

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