Dick Turpin
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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Date of Birth
September 21st, 1705
Age
318
Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
April 7th, 1739
Died Aged
33
Star Sign
Virgo
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