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George Barrington

Irish-born pickpocket (1755–1804)

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About George Barrington

George Barrington was an Irish pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer, and author. His escapades, arrests, and trials were widely chronicled in the London press of his day. For over a century following his death, and still perhaps today, he was most celebrated for the couplet “True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country’s good”. The attribution of the line to Barrington is considered apocryphal since the 1911 discovery by Sydney book collector Alfred Lee of the 1802 book in which the line first appeared.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by G. Kearsley, Fleet Street via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

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Occupation: pickpocket, writer
Born: May 14, 1755
Died: December 27, 1804

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